JediJoker
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
Thanks to YouTube rolling out support, here's my first (and so far only) 5.1 mix from 2016:
The "5.1 Surround" option is available when I play this on my LG TV's YouTube app, and "Stats for nerds" shows the audio codec as AC-3. As expected, the playback volume is very low. Compared to most YouTube videos, I had to raise the volume by a whopping 20dB+ to achieve a comfortable listening level. This is similar to my experience with surround and immersive formats from other video streaming services.
The mix was done in Pro Tools six-and-a-half years ago when I was a student at Pyramind in San Francisco. At that time, they had a Meyer single-plane surround monitoring system with at least nine full-range channels (including massive LCRs) and two subs. The channel configurations were handled by a pair of Meyer Galileo processors that could be set up for 5.1, 7.1, SDDS, and more. The bounced audio from that session (actually printed internally to a new 5.1 track) was uncompressed 6-channel 24-bit/48kHz WAV in SMPTE channel order: L, R, C, Lfe, Ls, Rs. (I believe AC-3 uses a different order, but YouTube automatically mapped the channels correctly when encoding the stream.) To make the WAV YouTube-friendly, I created a static video of the same length in iMovie, then used ffmpeg to "pass through" the 6-channel audio as-is to the .MOV file.
Let me know if it plays back correctly for you, and what you think of the mix! Constructive criticism welcome.
The "5.1 Surround" option is available when I play this on my LG TV's YouTube app, and "Stats for nerds" shows the audio codec as AC-3. As expected, the playback volume is very low. Compared to most YouTube videos, I had to raise the volume by a whopping 20dB+ to achieve a comfortable listening level. This is similar to my experience with surround and immersive formats from other video streaming services.
The mix was done in Pro Tools six-and-a-half years ago when I was a student at Pyramind in San Francisco. At that time, they had a Meyer single-plane surround monitoring system with at least nine full-range channels (including massive LCRs) and two subs. The channel configurations were handled by a pair of Meyer Galileo processors that could be set up for 5.1, 7.1, SDDS, and more. The bounced audio from that session (actually printed internally to a new 5.1 track) was uncompressed 6-channel 24-bit/48kHz WAV in SMPTE channel order: L, R, C, Lfe, Ls, Rs. (I believe AC-3 uses a different order, but YouTube automatically mapped the channels correctly when encoding the stream.) To make the WAV YouTube-friendly, I created a static video of the same length in iMovie, then used ffmpeg to "pass through" the 6-channel audio as-is to the .MOV file.
Let me know if it plays back correctly for you, and what you think of the mix! Constructive criticism welcome.