Export multichannel mp4/h.264 with Adobe Premiere Pro CC

The Adobe company still didn't solve this problem??? 😮

5 years have passed!!!!!!!

It's a shame!!
As they said on their website: "

"Any camera. Any format. Any platform."

😄 😄 😄
In this time, when by mobile phone recorded videos playing day by day in the broadcast media, the adobe still didn't recognise their weekest point(s).

No worries!

You should just use another video editing program... 😉

HI All, Just wanted to chime in here Andre thank you for the post and I am glad you found a solution, just kinda wish you could share it with the rest of us....

After exhaustively reading the post and not getting any good answers, I got answers but always I was referred to purchase some type pf software or be a programmer and try to write script...We don't have time for all that we are under a deadline and Kudos to those who can, you're very smart.

I needed to deliver a file in H.264 with AAC Audio multichannel as a mp4. As you know PPro cannot export H.264 files with Multichannel AAC audio as an .mp4, the only options are stereo, 5.1 or mono...

So you have to export a file as H.264 QT with uncompressed audio to get all the channels.

Okay here we go, you have a multi channel output lets just say 4 channels In PPro prep your file the best way you know how. when you are ready to export make sure to check VIDEO CODEC to H.264 your format can be Quicktme it won't matter for the conversion, just make sure your Video Codec is H.264 in the Audio tab assign your channels, again Im not going to explain this part.

once you export your file you should have a H.264 QT movie with however many channels in this case 4 Channels.

Open the file with Handbrake which is free, FREE no limited trial or other BS. once the file is open check the preset tab it should say MP4 File

check the video tab and the picture tabs to make sure al is okey dokey, open the audio tab and select tracks tab and import all tracks voila the tracks all appear in this case 4 now you do have to change sone settings to the right of each track, codec which should be set to AAC, mixdown set to mono, sample rate 48, bitrate whatever is required in my case 256.

thats it drop it into the queue and start exporting. once it finishes if all was done right you should have a H.264 multichannel file with a MP4 extension.

to verify use either MPEGstream clip or MediaInfo which is also free to verify the file codec is H.264 and the format is a MP4.

Hope this helps...

Guys finally found a solution.

I managed to have two tracks each stereo without down mixing using ffmpeg. Actually iFFmpeg GUI for macOS.

You just have to add a audio track and thats it. If you have previously exported multitrack QuickTime you can choose streams for each corresponding audio track.

Sorry - looks like I'm not getting email notifications from community pages any more!  Even THIS is getting buggy!  Did you get sorted?

I have run into the same problem - I need to export an MP4 with multiple voiceover audio channels (different languages for each channel, which an Android app will then choose).

I have managed to get the quicktime exported with 4 audio channels, but MP4 does not offer multichannel.

Does anybody have a workaround with a third party vid conveter which will get the quicktime to an MP4 and preserve the discrete audio channels?

If I choose Quicktime-H264 with uncompressed audio I get the following options.