28 Aug
2013
28 Aug
'13
11:52 a.m.
Hi Andreas,
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:11:53 +0200
Andreas Eli <andreaseli.kino(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello!
Yesterday I made 3 versions of a DCP with a little video, and because
its mono, I wanted to try how it would sound like when the audio is C,
LR and LCR. So I exported a mono uncompressed wav file from Adobe
Premiere. I tried to listen to the file with VLC Player and looked at
the codec (PCM L16 SE) and thought everything was fine. But in the
cinema, the sound was only LR, no matter what, and was pitched down like
crazy. Didn?t sound good at all :)
What did i do wrong? Is there a problem that the video file has audio
too, and i just choosed external audio, is the video file not allowed to
have audio?
I would guess that you ended up with a DCP with a strange number of channels
that your projector didn't like. I would try enabling pad with silence
and setting the number of channels to 6.
And my secound question, I?m not sure what "pad
with silence to X
channels" does and what I do with it. It?s not written in the manual.
Can I get a short explanation?
It will add silent audio channels to your DCP up to the specified number.
If, for example, you have a stereo source and you set "pad" to 6, you will end
up
with L and R having your source material and C, Lfe, Ls and Rs all being silent.
This helps in some cases where projectors don't like certain numbers
of sound channels (e.g. just one).
Best regards
Carl