Chapter 6
Editing Multichannel Audio
With Sound Forge® Pro software, you can edit multichannel audio files in the same way you work with mono or stereo files.
Sound Forge software supports multichannel files in the following formats:
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Dolby AC-3 (.ac3) (AC-3 is available as a render format only)
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Raw Audio (.raw)
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Sony AVC (.mp4, .m2ts, .avc)
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Sony Wave64 (.w64)
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Wave (.wav)
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Video For Windows (.avi) – specifically DV, SDI
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Windows Media Audio/Video (.wma or .wmv)
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ATRAC (.oma)
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Material Exchange Format (.mxf )
Note:
MXF files require a video stream. If you want to save an audio-only file to MXF format, you must first attach a video stream. For
Attaching video to an audio file
When working with MXF files, the number of channels in your source media must match the number of output channels specified by the
rendering template. If necessary, use the Channel Converter before rendering.
Render format
Number of channels
DV MXF
Always contains 4 audio channels.
You can use the
Channels
drop-down list on the
Audio
tab of the Custom Template dialog to choose how
many channels will be filled with audio. For example, if you choose
2
from the
Channels
drop-down list, the
rendered file will contain 4 audio channels: two channels will contain audio, and two channels will contain
silence.
IMX MXF
Always contains 8 audio channels.
You can use the
Channels
drop-down list on the
Audio
tab of the Custom Template dialog to choose how
many channels will be filled with audio. For example, if you choose
2
from the
Channels
drop-down list, the
rendered file will contain 8 audio channels: two channels will contain audio, and six channels will contain
silence.
HD MXF
Can contain 2 or 4 audio channels.
You can use the
Channels
drop-down list on the
Audio
tab of the Custom Template dialog to choose how
many channels will be rendered. For example, if you choose
2
from the
Channels
drop-down list, the
rendered file will contain only 2 audio channels.
EDITING MULTICHANNEL AUDIO
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