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Help with Voltaic please

Jarl Ayari

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Hi Guys,

I am so tempted right now to ditch my mac and go back to a pc...

I bought a grffin firewave so I could use the 5.1 surround sound part of Final Cut Pro. I use Voltaic to rips the AC3 part of my movies that I shoot from my Sony AVCHD Camcorder. I have checked the settings on the cam and they are fine, tested the same file on a pc and I get 6 channels, however when I use the extract 5.1 option in voltaic, I only get the normal 2 channels...

Everything is set on the mac to use the griffin firewave and if I set 6 manual channels in final cut I can get 6 channels working no problems, the problem does seem to be voltaic not extracting the 6 channels...

HELP!!!

Andi
 
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Check this URL and read down about the middle of the page. The problem is in the Voltaic program but they claim Apple does the same thing.

VoltaicHD for Mac FAQ | ShedWorx

"Is there any quality loss in the conversion?
No. We have compared out output to Apple's and both look great.

There is a loss in the audio formats though. AVCHD records 5.1 Dolby Digital (6 channels). We have had to drop back to 2 channels (stereo) on the conversion. Be aware that Apple also does this in their AVCHD import."
 
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I wonder if I can get something on a PC to strip the 5.1 and keep it that way so I can re mix it in FCP?

Thanks for the reply dtravis...

Andi
 

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