5.1 Surround Sound editing in Adobe Premiere Pro

UPDATE: Adobe has not renewed their Dolby license so as a result, any Dolby export functionality will not be available in any version of Premiere Pro CC, Audition CC or Media Encoder CC.

This tutorial takes you through the process of creating and working with 5.1 files including making Sequence settings. Also covered is automating surround sound panning and isolating LFE in a 5.1 Sequence.

This is a link to an H.264 5.1 surround sound test file:

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[MoviesRemastered]

This is one of the most concise and impressive tutorials on 5.1 I've ever seen. Invaluable information! Thank you so much for this. This will help my editing significantly.

[BrendanPatrickHughes]

I've been searching for this tutorial for two days. Thank you Colin. Not the first time you've saved my life. I've been trying to export a feature film to go to a QC company for distribution, and they want a 4444 with 8 mono audio tracks: L R C LFE Ls Rs LT RT. From what i understand this is a standard way to deliver features these days. Premiere makes it literally impossible to figure out.The channel output assignments being ganged as 1&2, 3&4 etc leads to not 8 discreet tracks as they are in the sequence, but four pairs of stereo tracks (if you don't pan). My test clips kept failing QC because I hadn't intuited that I needed to pan all tracks (including C) left and right in the sequence setup, which is completely counter intuitive. I have a feeling that will solve the problem. THANK YOU!

[DMWerbetechnik]

Those tutorials are a crazy amount of work. Thanks a lot for all this great stuff! Keep on doing!

[iforgot]

Sending something to a festival in 5.1 This is the most helpful thing I've found. Thanks! Subbed.

[HoundDogMech]

I have 2 separate 5.1 systems One TV (HDMI) the other USB and both let me here the separate speakers in this video on U-Tube. Amazing.

[alymanclarke]

Thank you so much for this!! Between a couple of your videos on surround sound you saved me from having to go back to the post house and pay them a bunch of money to conform the surround to a couple small edits I had made to my movie. You are a life saver.

[e_rodl]

This is one of the most useful tutorials I've ever seen. Thank you thank you thank you. Editing in Premiere would be a hassle without you

[KrishnajithJithzzz]

Described so good. Your videos are really good. Don't know why you have only 90k subscribers. You deserve to have more!
Thanks for the videos.

[malleshgm]

Sir, you are really a master. I am learning a lot from your tutorials. Thank you very much for the video.

[classisnsk]

Damn, who take dislike for this video? This absolutely useful video for surround sound design in Premiere!

[AlmafilmA]

This video save us a lot of time the day before our private premiere. Thanks for sharing!

[ambientplanet]

Mr. Smith, thank you for all of your great tutorials! I have a really dumb question as newbie to 5.1 mixing in Premiere (I have cc 2019). I have an M-Audio interface to which I have my two studio monitors attached. Here's the dumb question. Can I use 5.1 surround headphones and hear the 5.1 mix simply by plugging the headphones into the headphone jack on my audio interface? Does 5.1 decode through standard 1/4" output to a device (i.e., headphones) that can decode a 5.1 file? Thanks so much for your time!

[miketrip]

Another LFE work around; Edit > Edit in Adobe Audition > Sequence... Once your project is in Audition, open the track panner panel. There is an "LFE Only" button that will isolate the LFE. Make sure to turn up the LFE percentage on the bottom slider or you won't hear anything. I know this is a Premiere Pro tutorial but I hope that helps.

[JoseMarioLagos]

This is really helpful, I have a mix in separated mono tracks and this makes the process of render a master really easy, thanks!

[freshritchi]

Great Tutorial! But I cant click ob the output asignments so I am not able to choose the other track channels from the Master... The window from [15:35] wont show up. any ideas why?

[rforgaard]

Hi, Colin. Great tutorial. In the description of the video above, you provide a DropBox link to your finished "Surround_Test.mp4" file, which is super useful. That particular output file uses Dolby 5.1. When I import that file into the current version of Premiere Pro (v24.0.0), the audio comes in as 6 mono tracks. By any chance, do you have a version of "Surround_Test.mp4" that is exported with one of the other 5.1 formats that is currently supported by Adobe, so that the file imports as a 5.1 audio track? That would be useful to me. Many thanks!

[bacharkhattar]

Thank you for this video! so now without the dolby license, it is not recommended to export a dcp file 5.1 from the latest version of premiere?

[iamjithu]

Thanks a lot Colin. This video was very helpful. But I have a question. Towards the end around 17:38 you show the track A8 having a plus button which is then used to get the panned sequence . I don't see any such track when in my project when I follow what you've said. Any help on that?

[MertBert]

Hey Colin. Thank you so much for this super informative and helpful video. I'm showing a short video in my local cinema next week Friday, and I'm playing with the thought of making a 5.1 mix instead of showing only Stereo. I have a couple of "audio swells", lower-end frequency sounds just like you hear in big blockbuster films. Are those sounds only meant to be played on the LFE, you think? Or would I be well off, playing them from lets's say the 3rd Ch, center?

If the low drone-like humming sounds can only be truly felt by placing them in the LFE, should I go for your second option shown in the vid? (making a 6 Ch master, then throwing the nested seq into the 5.1 track). Tusen takk, muchos gracias, enkosi kakhulu - that's Thank You's in Norwegian, Spanish and Xhosa!! Hope it'll persuade you into answering my question : ) and THANKS!
Martin Ask

[claytontramel]

At 15:35 you pan left then right....and then left and right again....and then left and right again. Isnt that middle left to right sending all of your center audio to the left and your LFE to the right? Shouldn't you leave channels 3 and 4 center?