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==Editing Existing Surround Sound== | ==Editing Existing Surround Sound== | ||
When adding a clip with more than two channels to a project, kdenlive creates an audio thumbnail that correctly shows all audio channels: | |||
[[File:AudioThumbnail.png]] | |||
The clip can be edited and (audio) effects applied to it, and all appears to work just fine - but once rendering the project, it turns out that the audio track in the resulting video file is 2 channels only. | |||
==Creating New Surround Sound== | ==Creating New Surround Sound== | ||
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Editing Surround Sound with Kdenlive
At the time of writing, Kdenlive can only handle stereo (two channel) audio tracks. There is limited support for more than two channels, but in order to edit and create for example 5.1 surround sound, some manual steps including external tools are required.
External Tools Used Here
Note
Kdenlive uses ffmpeg, while on (k)ubuntu, ffmpeg is deprecated and avconv is used instead. So these (and possibly other) distributions already have avconv installed.
Editing Existing Surround Sound
When adding a clip with more than two channels to a project, kdenlive creates an audio thumbnail that correctly shows all audio channels:
The clip can be edited and (audio) effects applied to it, and all appears to work just fine - but once rendering the project, it turns out that the audio track in the resulting video file is 2 channels only.