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27th January 2009, 20:00 | #1 | Link |
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Surround AAC to Stereo
I've an audio source (from a movie) in the AAC format which is surround. I've encoded it into a stereo wave file with dBpoweramp Music Converter. However, the vocals in the audio are often very quietly in comparison with the music. Maybe dBpoweramp just took the Front left and Front right channels and didn't include the Center channel, but I'm not sure about this. Does someone know how to make the voices in the audio as loud as the music? When I play back the movie with the original surround audio, the volume of the vocals are fine, but I really want it to be stereo.
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28th January 2009, 06:28 | #3 | Link |
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You could try eac3to.
Simply feed it the original source (AC3, guessing?), and specify 2 channel AAC like this: Code:
eac3to input.ac3 -down2 output.aac
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you can try to decode the .aac with neroaacdec.exe (neroaacdec.exe -if audio.aac -of audio.wav)
i am not sure if it has support for raw .aac but if it has not you can mux the .aac to .mp4 with (mp4box.exe or mp4creator.exe) and it works for sure (neroaacdec.exe -if audio.mp4 -of audio.wav) now you have a mutichannel .wav that can be properly downmixed to stereo with various tools (behappy)... _ |
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Thanks for your answers. I tried with dBpoweramp, Foobar2000 and BeHappy. After this, I created one sample of 20 seconds of each in Adobe Audition and normalized them (100%). Then I compared them and actually found them to be all exact the same! Is there a way to manually 'put more Center channel in the downmix equation'?
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28th January 2009, 21:04 | #9 | Link |
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Ah. Gotcha
I misunderstood. You could simply use foobar2000, and add its 5.1->2ch downmix DSP plugin. ~MiSfit
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# Simple Stereo function fx(clip a) { flr = GetChannel(a, 1, 2) fcc = GetChannel(a, 3) lfe = GetChannel(a, 4) lfc = MixAudio(fcc, lfe, 0.2071, 0.2071) mix = MergeChannels(lfc, lfc) lrc = MixAudio(flr, mix, 0.2929, 1.0) blr = GetChannel(a, 5, 6) return MixAudio(lrc, blr, 1.0, 0.2929) } After you can open in BeHappy the edited avs. Don't use any DSP (they are included in avs) and encode
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29th January 2009, 18:43 | #11 | Link |
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Thanks! I edited the avs file, see below:
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# Simple Stereo function f3d6248d36198448f8d4a086df5d345c0(clip a) { flr = GetChannel(a, 1, 2) fcc = GetChannel(a, 3) lfe = GetChannel(a, 4) lfc = MixAudio(fcc, lfe, 0.46, 0.12) mix = MergeChannels(lfc, lfc) lrc = MixAudio(flr, mix, 0.26, 1.0) blr = GetChannel(a, 5, 6) return MixAudio(lrc, blr, 1.0, 0.16) } BTW, When I convert the wave-file to AC3, should the AC3 be 16 bits, 24 bits or 32 bits in order to make a VIDEO-DVD? Last edited by loekverhees; 29th January 2009 at 19:11. |
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