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Participant
September 1, 2017
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Is QuickTime showing 5.1 Audio track channel order incorrectly, or did the export screw up?

  • September 1, 2017
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Hi folks - a festival organiser asked me for a compressed version of a short film but with the 5.1 audio intact (so not an online screener).

I exported using an AAC codec, and a target channel layout of L R C LFE Ls Rs

However, Quicktime shows channel order as C L R Ls Rs LFE:

I found a similar question here: AAC Channel Order in 5.1 Export?

It was unanswered, but I followed the suggestion of opening it up in Audition and it did indeed seem to import the order correctly.

So what gives? Am I safe to send on the film to the programmer, maybe with a note saying the QuickTime properties window is a lie?

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Participant
October 8, 2017

Did you ever find out the answer to this? I am having the same problem! Thanks man!