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• Mixdown: Surround Sound is displayed as an audio object under the video object,
playback of the surround track is reduced and recalculated to stereo playback.
Use this option if you want to export the Surround Sound without editing You can
also use it if you think that a stereo export is enough to meet your requirements
• Surround mix: The individual Surround channel pairs (L-R, C LFE, Ls-Rs) are split
into three audio tracks as separate objects and the mixer is then set to Surround
Mode. This mode allows you to change the Surround mix.
In MAGIX Video Pro X6 the import of Surround Sound Stereo/5.1 is always executed
as a mixdown. MAGIX Video Pro X6 can also import interleaved wave files (multi-
channel wave files), multi-channel Windows Media Audio and MP3Surround files; a
Surround mix is always created.
Export
Surround mix exports can occur in any one of the following formats:
• 6-channel PCM files (interleaved wave)
• Windows Media files (as a Surround soundtrack of a Windows Media Video or
WMV-HD disc)
• MPEG-2 files with Surround Sound Stereo/5.1 audio track
The files created are fully compatible with the normal file formats. This means that
they can also be played on computers incapable of playing Surround (in normal
stereo).
The export is performed using the same menu commands (e.g. "File -> Export movie -
> Audio as wave") like the normal stereo export. You will then be asked if the export
should be in stereo or Surround format.
Export Surround Sound using Smart Copy
You can also burn original material with Surround Sound to DVD again without the
need for the codec or you can export the corresponding MPEG files while keeping 5.1
Surround Sound. To do this, use the "Smart Rendering" option which transfers the
unprocessed parts of the original material to the destination file without renewed
encoding. Read more on this in the MPEG encoder settings section General settings
(view page 365).
Note: The import has to be executed as a mixdown; the audio material cannot be
changed (no fades, no audio cleaning, no volume adjustment). Hard cuts, e.g. to
remove commercials, are allowed but in some cases they may only occur at the
borders of the GOP and not frame-precise.