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Installation and User Manual – DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder Contents 1. INSTALLATION 2 1.1. PC Standalone Installation 2 1.2. Mac Standalone Installation 3 2. OVERVIEW 6 3. USING THE PRO PACKER 7 4. ENCODING IMMEDIATELY AFTER PACKING 12 5. USING THE ENCODER IN STANDALONE MODE 14 6. ENCRYPTING A FILE 18 Decrypting a File 19 7. DVD AUTHORING FOR DTS 20 8. UNINSTALLING THE SOFTWARE 20 9. DIALOG NORMALIZATION 21 6.1.
DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder – Installation and User Manual 1. Installation 1.
Installation and User Manual – DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder 3. Install the adapter key (dongle) (DTS #E907-02) into a USB port on your PC after the software has completed installation. Note: It is the responsibility of the owner of the DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder to keep the adapter key (dongle) in a safe and secure location. If the adapter is lost, DTS has no obligation to replace it.
DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder – Installation and User Manual Important: Proper privileges are required to install and uninstall Surround Encoder software, including the WIBU driver for the auto-detected adapter key. Displaying System information Click the Apple icon at the top left of the screen and select About this Mac. The operating system name will display in a pop-up box, along with the version number. Click the More Info... button to inspect other settings.
Installation and User Manual – DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder 5. Double-click the blue WIBU Vise icon to launch the installer. Choose Easy Install . The wizard will take you through the rest of the procedure. 6. Install the DTS Encoder. Double-click on the icon DTSProSeriesEncoder.pkg to start the installer. The wizard will take you through the rest of the procedure. Important: The package must be installed onto the root volume of the operating system.
DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder – Installation and User Manual 2. Overview There are three components to the Pro Series Surround Encoder system, Pro Packer, Pro Encoder, and Pro Encrypter utility. Important: All audio files to be encoded must first be processed using the Pro Packer. Start with the Pro Packer The purpose of the Pro Packer is to bring all the source audio files together into a single file.
Installation and User Manual – DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder 3. Using the Pro Packer Start the DTS Multi-channel Pro Packer (activate the Pro Packer icon). The Pro Packer screen will display. Figure 2. Pro Packer — Initial screen Our example In this example, 48 kHz files are being packed and then encoded to produce a DTS 5.1 DVD. 1. Select channel mapping L C R for the front channels. See Table 1, page 11. 2. Select Ls Rs channel mapping for the surround channels. See Table 1, page 11.
DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder – Installation and User Manual 3. LFE is set to ON. See Table 1, page 11. 4. Sample rate is set to 48 kHz. The Sample rate here must match the sample rate of the source files. See note 1, after step 12, page 10. 5. 3 dB Rear channel attenuation is left OFF.
Installation and User Manual – DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder If the audio track is intended to sync with video, be sure to match its frame rate. If the video reference is drop frame , you MUST select drop frame here. 10. Frame rate: If it is important to match the start of the audio track to some specific point in the video, enter the Start time here, in hours:minutes:seconds:frames (hh:mm:ss:ff) format.
DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder – Installation and User Manual 12. Repeat step 11 for the other channels. Sample rate Bit depth Duration (hh:mm:ss:ff) Input files have been selected for all channels. For each input file, the sample rate, bit depth, and duration is identified. See note 1, below. Use the duration information to check that the input files are identical in length. See note 2, below. Special Case: This packer will accept a stereo source file to assign to a single channel.
Installation and User Manual – DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder Click “Pack and Encode” to generate the packed file and launch the encoder. (If the output file already exists, the Packer will prompt you to overwrite it.) The above prompt will display when the packing is finished. Then the Surround Encoder program will be automatically activated (next step). At this point, the packed file(.agm extension) will be found in the output directory. All packed files have the .agm extension.
DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder – Installation and User Manual 4. Encoding Immediately after Packing Since we chose “Pack and Encode” in our example, the Pro Surround Encoder program starts automatically when the Packer is finished (Figure 3) and runs in a separate window on the desktop. Figure 3. DTS Pro Series Surrounf Encoder Screen 1. Almost all the settings on this page are carried over from the Packer program.
Installation and User Manual – DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder 3. These fields are automatically filled with information carried in the packed file. Reset — click this button to reload the values from the packed file, if necessary. 4. Bit Rate and Output type For 44.1 kHz and 88.2 kHz source files, only one bit rate (1234800) and output type (.wav) are possible. With 48 kHz source files for DVD encoding, Bit rate is selectable: 1509750 bits (1.5 Mbps) or 754500 (754 kbps).
DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder – Installation and User Manual 5. Click the Encode button. A window will prompt you to review the encoder settings and confirm. Click Encode. A progress bar will display. 6. When encoding is finished, a confirmation prompt will appear. It indicates the output file name and location. Click OK. In the Output directory, you will see two additional files, the .log (encoding report) and the .cpt (encoded) file. 5.
Installation and User Manual – DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder Click “Pack local file” to generate the output file. (If the output file already exists, the Packer will prompt you to overwrite it.) This prompt will display when the packing is finished. In the selected output directory, you will see an additional file — the .agm packed file. 2. In the Source file section, use the Browse function to select the packed.agm file that you want to encode. In this example, DTS Test 4.
DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder – Installation and User Manual 6. In the DTS Settings section, choose the Bit Rate, Output type, and Dialog factor. (See step 4 on page 13 for explanation.) Normalization 3dB rear channel attenuation is display-only here. This parameter is set in the Packer. (See step 5 on page 8 for explanation.) Bit Rate and Output type fields are automatically determined by the sample rate of the source material. For 44.1 kHz and 88.
Installation and User Manual – DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder 7. Click the Encode button. A confirmation prompt will appear. Review the settings and, if they are OK, click Encode. 8. A status bar at the bottom of the screen will indicate the progress of the encode task. Next, a prompt will inform you that the encoding task is finished. Click OK. In the output directory, the output file (.cpt in this example) and the encoding report (.log) will be listed.
DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder – Installation and User Manual 6. Encrypting a File Use the Pro Encrypter program to encrypt an .agm packed file for sending over an unsecure network to another location. The DTS Pro Encrypter screen will display. Figure 4: Encryption Utility screen 1. In the Source section, use the Browse function to select the source .agm file to be encrypted. The information about the source file will be imported automatically. In this example, the DTS Test 4.
Installation and User Manual – DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder 3. Enter a password (at least 8 characters long), and type the password again to confirm. 4. Click the Encrypt button to begin the process. A confirmation prompt will display. Review the choices, then click Yes to proceed. 5. A progress bar will display at the bottom of the screen while the encryption is processing, then this confirmation prompt will display when the file has been encrypted. The encrypted .
DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder – Installation and User Manual 7. DVD Authoring for DTS A complete discussion of audio encoding for DTS can be found in DVD-Video document number E818, which can be downloaded from the DTS website at: Production with DTS Coherent Acoustics Audio, http://www.dtsonline.com/media/uploads/pdfs/DVD_Authoring.pdf 8. Uninstalling the Software PC Version For the Windows version, open the Settings\Control Panel and click Add/Remove Programs .
Installation and User Manual – DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder 7. Move any aliases you manually created to the Trash. 8. Empty the Trash after deleting the above files and folder. 9. Dialog Normalization Dialog Normalization is the use of metadata to control playback level. It has no effect on encoding or decoding. It is an instruction to playback equipment to adjust the level of all channels, post-decoding. A single DIALNORM value is applied to a given program: level is not adjusted within a program.
DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder – Installation and User Manual The purpose of DIALNORM is to achieve a consistent level of dialog from one program or program source to the next. End-users set volume to achieve a pleasing and intelligible level of dialog. However, dialog level varies considerably across different program types. For example, in a feature motion picture, dialog typically averages -27 dBFS LeqA in order to allow sufficient headroom for explosions and other effects.
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DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder – Installation and User Manual DTS Pro Series surround encoder A Full-Featured Suite for Today’s Digital Audio Workstation DTS technologies deliver the highest quality audio available on the market today. With more than 280 million DTS-licensed consumer electronics products available worldwide, there s a compelling reason for content owners and producers to be releasing DTS-encoded software for movies, music and more.
