Audio Mapping

[funkytwig]

firstly let me say great software. Used it a lot over the years but not recently.

So I the video file I have has the following audio channels

Channel 1: Left Front
Channel 2: Right Front
Channel 3: Center
Channel 4: LFE
Channel 5: Left Surround
Channel 6: Right Surround
Channel 7: Left Total
Channel 8: Right Total


So in the audio Tab I do the table like this

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                  DCP
             L   R   C   LFe Ls  Rs
 1.1       X
 1.2            X
 1.3                X 
 1.4                     X
 1.5                           X
 1.6                                 X
 1.7
 1.8

What I cant find in the manual is what does 1.1 .. 1.8 actually refer to. i.e. it seems 1.4=LFE?

Particularly what 1.7 and 1.8 are.



Beb

[carl]

1.1 .. 1.8 are just some numbers that DCP-o-matic assigns to the streams in your file. So in your case, 1.1 is your channel 1 (left front), 1.2 is your channel 2 (right front) and so on.

So 1.7 and 1.8 are left/right total which you could ignore, or add as a HI (hearing impaired) track.

[funkytwig]

Thanks, though the channel order may be allocated to things in DCP standards. Like 4 being LFE.

[Carsten]

The top row (output) in the matrix follows DCI/ISDCF/SMPTE conventions. The left row (input) of the matrix can not follow a strict convention other than plain 'channel number', because in computer video/audio files, there is no such convention.