5-1 Surround Sound Audio

[Bolosun]

Hi,

I am editing a video and have added some music in overlay track 1. What I thought would be a good idea and easy to do was to have the music come out of the front left and right speakers and the captured video audio to come out of the centre speaker. Is it possible in Corel VideoStudio Pro X4 to assign the audio track to a specific speaker or do I need some other s/w to do that?

Thanks Dave

[DVDDoug]

I've never actually done anything with 5.12 surround in Video Studio...

I think it should work. Have you experimented with the surround mixer? On pages 118 & 119 of the user manual there is a section called Using The Surround Sound Mixer. When you get the surround mixer open, there is a box showing 5 speakers and you can drag the sound icon around, positining it in the "room" left-to-right and front-to-back.

Now, I don't know if you can drag the left & right music channels separately and you don't want to drag the music to the center... So, you might need to make separate left & right (mono) music tracks. If it was me, I'd use an audio editor for that... but you might be able to mute the left & right channels one at a time and "share" the left & right channels (one at a time) to create those mono left & right files.

...Whenever I've done anything with surround sound, I've used different software (probably the hard way) and I've created 6 separate mono WAV files to feed into the 5.1 AC3 encoder.

[Bolosun]

Yes I did read the manual, but as someone else posted, the manual is next to useless. I dragged the audio from the video clip to the centre speaker and when I played it back it still came out of the left and right speakers. I do some more playing around and see if I can get the effect I am after.