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Export Dolby Digital Surround via Smart Encoding
You can also burn material to be exported with Surround sound again without the need for
the Dolby Digital codec (in MAGIX Video Pro X2 or without Dolby Digital encoder activa
to DVD or export the corresponding MPEG files while keeping 5.1 Surround Sound.
so, use the "Smart Rendering" option which transfe
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To do
rs the unprocessed parts of the output
material without renewed encoding. Read more on this in the MPEG encoder settings
section "
General settings (view page 298)".
The import has to be executed as a mixdown, the audio material cannot be changed (no
fades, no audio cleaning, no volume adjustment). Harder cuts, e.g. removal of commercials
are allowed, but they may not happen precisely according to the frame, but at the GOP
(group of pictures) borders.
The Mixer in surround mode
To activate Surround playback, open the mixer ("M" key) and click on the "5.1 Surround"
button in the master.
In the master
button turns i
, 6 peak meters for the individual channels are shown. The normal panorama
nto a representative display of the Surround editor (
see below (view page
The Surround editor is also available to the FX tracks (see "Mixer"). For example, you can
send the original track to the front loudspeaker
L/R, the FX track however will remain at the
rear loudspeakers Ls/Rs.
The master volume is applied to all channels, here the left controller influences channels L
and Ls, the right controller; channels R and Rs and the middle value of both controller; the
channels C and LFE.
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