Adobe 22011292 User Guide - Page 357

ADOBE AUDITION 343 User Guide Fold down to stereo dialog box To access the Fold down to stereo dialog, click on the Fold down to stereo settings button within the Multichannel Export Options dialog. The three numerical fields will default to -3, -3 and -12 dB as shown above. The defaults are usually good settings for most files, but you can enter any value in any of these 3 fields between 0 and -144 dB as desired. Opening Encoded and Exported files back in Adobe Audition Once you have performed your Export from the Multichannel Encoder dialog and created the new WMA or WAV file(s), you may wish to open the files back into Adobe Audition. Adobe Audition is capable of opening 6-channel WMA or WAV files. To open a multichannel file in Adobe Audition's Edit View, simply go to File-Open as usual and this will open the multichannel file as six mono files. Note: 6-channel WMA files will only open as 6 mono files in Adobe Audition if you are running on Windows XP. If you are using Windows 98/Me/2000, the 6-channel wma files will be automatically folded down to a stereo file utilizing the Fold-down to stereo parameters mentioned in the previous section. This is a restriction of the Windows Media file format imposed by Microsoft on these operating systems. This restriction is not imposed on 6-channel WAV files. Once these 6 mono files are created within Adobe Audition, they can then be edited and saved back as just as any mono file within any audio application that supports wav files. If you wish to use Adobe Audition to save the files back as one single, interleaved multichannel WMA or WAV, you can open the exported 6-channel file in Adobe Audition. This will automatically split the file into six mono files you can then insert them into six tracks of an Adobe Audition multitrack session. To "save" these files back as one interleaved multichannel file, it is necessary to launch the Multichannel Encoder dialog and assign each file back to its own individual channel and perform an export again as WMA Pro or 6-channel WAV as desired. You should of course be sure to set the pan assignment to the correct channel order if you wish to keep the same channel order as the opened 6-channel file.