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Displaying Audio Formats in Bins
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Displaying Audio Formats in Bins
You can select a bin heading to display the audio formats in the bin. The applicable audio
format, AIFF-C, WAVE, PCM, or SDII (Macintosh), appears in the Audio Format column
for master clips.
To add the Audio Format column to a bin:
1. With a bin in Text view, select Bin > Choose Columns.
The Bin Column Selection dialog box opens.
2. Click Audio Format in the list to select it.
3. Click OK.
The Audio Format column appears in the bin.
Working with Surround Sound or 5.1 Audio (Avid
Nitris DX and Avid Mojo DX Only)
Avid editors with certain Avid input/output hardware attached let you receive audio as
channels of premixed surround sound. You can hear this audio as either mixdown stereo or
as true 5.1 surround sound using six speakers.
Six-channel digital surround sound systems use the 5.1 speaker format and constitute a
standard in major motion pictures, music, and digital television. This format consists of
three speakers across the front, two speakers in the rear, and a sixth channel called
Low-Frequency Effects (LFE) sent to a subwoofer.
When you do not use 5.1 surround sound, the Direct Out stereo mix of the output mono
channels have all odd channels mixed to the left and all even channels mixed to the right.
Output stereo channels use the left and right speaker channels, with the stereo mix panned to
the center.
The Output tab in the Audio Project settings dialog box lets you select the 5.1 option to
designate a project with surround sound audio. If you have more than six tracks, or the tracks
are given in a different order, you can use the Direct Out channel map to designate which
tracks of the sequence go to which channels. The following table lists the default format for
mono tracks.
Track Channel
A1 Left (L)