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Tutorial
Converting Stereo tracks to Dolby Surround 5.1 tracks.
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Introduction.In this tutorial, I will explain how to convert a normal stereo (2 channel) sound track to a 6 channelsDTS or Dolby Surround track and burn them on DVD that can be played on any home of PC DVDplayer.DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio is composed of these 6 tracks :1. FL = Front left and goes to the left speaker2. FR = Front right and goes to the left speaker3. C = Center and goes to the central speaker (mainly for vocals)4. LFE = Low Frequency Effect => deep bass sub-woofer speaker : For very low frequency audio(20 Hz to 100 Hz)5. SL = Surround Left => Rear left speaker6. SR = Surround Right => Rear right speaker
Here is how we will obtain these tracks :
We will have to create 6 audio tracks from the original 2 tracks.Front-Left => This will be taken from the left channel of the stereo file.Front-Right => This will be taken from the right channel of the stereo file.Center = > We will bandpass filter the stereo file to extract audio in the vocal frequency range (150Hz to 3 Khz).LFE => We will low-pass filter the stereo file to extract the bass for the LFE.Warning: Extreme care must be taken here to let only signal above 20 Hz in this file. Or else signalbelow (lower than) 20 Hz may damage your ears or surrounding equipements when it getsamplified by the sub-woofer. Audio editors like Adobe or Wavelab have this control implementedby default but I don't know for other software.SL => Extracted from the stereo left channel, we will add reverbs and flanger effect to make aswirling sound fly on your back.SR => Same as above but extracted from the right channel of the stereo file.Software I am going to use :
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Adobe Audition Version 1.5 or 2.0. Any aother audio editor having the functions mentions inthis tutorial can be used. This technique can also be transposed to any other software.
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Minnetonka SurCode DVD pro (Or any other freeware that can encode DTS.
Step-1 : Get the audio track and convert to wave (PCM).
You can do this with any usual CD ripping software and save the tracks in wav PCM 16 bitsformat. The resulting file is about 10 Mbytes for every minute of sound.You can also use mp3 files but I advise you to only use High Bitrates (upto 320 Kbits/s VBR).Save this file as
test.wav
.This file has a sampling rate of 44.1 Khz (The CD specification) but DVD accept only 48 Khz. Youcan keep the 44.1 Khz if you are only going to burn DTS audio-CD. Not for DVD.We will have to resample to 48 Khz.Open the « test.wav » file in Adobe Audition (From now on I will call it Adobe),Click
Edit
in the menu bar and select «
Convert Sample type
»
In the next window select 48000 as sample rate / Stereo as Channels / and 16 as bit depth. Setquality to high by moving the slider to the left till you read 999 then click « ok ».From now on we will use the audio files bundle with this tutorial. These are from the movie :Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani – Song –
I'm the best
.I have chosen this one as it is in stereo and is a good song.(And finally you will be the
best
after completing this tutorial).Files included :
I'm the best_stereo.flac
foobar2000.rar
Adobe Audition documentation can be freely downloaded on adobe web site.I have compressed it in lossless FLAC audio format. Use any FLAC decompressor or if you are likeme, use FOOBAR2000 (Bundled with this tutorial). You will only have to decompress theoriginal track «
I'm the best_stereo.flac
». The file is already in 48000 Hz, so you wont have toresample it.Here is how to decompress in foobar2000 (or fb2k).
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Open the file in fb2k.
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