Multichannel question

joseartur wrote on 12/18/2014, 12:47 PM
Hello my friends
I have a doubt about the channels to made ac3 5.1
The Ideia it`s move de red dot to your correspondent speaker?
Supose, de first channel it`s Front Left, It`s necessary move like the picture?
Thank you

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Geoff_Wood wrote on 12/18/2014, 7:51 PM
Not "move to the speaker" as an absolute thing, but (apart from Centre which 'snaps on', and LFE which is fixed) you are panning a signal proportionally between the 'four corners', as is indicated by the pop-up tag that shows you how much of the track signal is going to each speaker.

geoff
joseartur wrote on 12/19/2014, 4:06 PM
Thank you Geoff_Wood
With your help I supose isn`t necessary move the any red dot.
Sony Vegas dectect automatically the channel: Front Left, Front Right, Center ....
It`s that?
Geoff_Wood wrote on 12/19/2014, 10:05 PM
No, You move the red dot around to pan the track's signal BEWTEEN the four corner speakers. With the red dot on (say) FL, the sound will come from only the extreme left of the front 'stereo' soundstage.

Vegas will provide a default setting for each track, but that is only because it has to place each track's panning 'somewhere' .....

Panning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panning_(audio)

geoff
audio2u wrote on 4/19/2015, 10:56 PM
Joseartur,
You can also click on the speaker icons in the panner.
By swicthing them to an 'off' state, you prevent the audio from the track being sent to those speakers.
Also, if you double click the panner, it will launch in a floating window, and that floating window has a button which cycles between:
a) a 4 way arrow
b) a left-right only arrow, and
c) a forward-backward arrow.
This allows you to constrain the direction of movement for the audio of that track within your surround environment.
audio2u wrote on 4/19/2015, 10:58 PM
If you have a narration which is separate from any on screen dialogue, you might want to limit the narration to ONLY come from the centre speaker, while your dialogue could be spread across LF, C, RF.
To do this, you'd simply de-activate the 4 surround speaker icons in the panner for your narration track.