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    e s s e e e DTS Pro Series Installation and User Manual surr ound enc oder A Full-Featured Suite for T oday’ s Digital Audio Workstation[...]

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    Confidential Contains confidential proprietary information owned by Digital Theater Systems, Inc., including but not limited to trade secrets, know-how , technical and business information. Not for disclosure except under terms of a Non-Disclosur e Agreement accepted by recipient and by an actually authorized agent of Digital Theater Systems, Inc. [...]

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    Contents 1. INST ALLA TION 2 1.1. PC Standalone Installation 2 1.2. Mac Standalone Installation 3 2. OVERVIEW 6 3. USING THE PRO P ACKER 7 4. ENCODING IMMEDIA TEL Y AFTER P ACKING 12 5. USING THE ENCODER IN ST ANDALONE MODE 14 6. ENCRYPTING A FILE 18 6.1. Decrypting a File 19 7. DVD AUTHORING FOR DTS 20 8. UNINST ALLING THE SOFTWARE 20 9. DIALOG NO[...]

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    1. Installation 1.1 PC Standalone Installation System requirements ■ PC computer , Pentium 4, 1GHz or higher (r ecommended) ■ 256 MB RAM ■ 1 hard drive, 7200 RPM minimum, 200 MB fr ee disk space ■ Greater than 20 GB disk space for audio files ■ USB port for the license adapter key (dongle) ■ W indows XP Home edition or XP Professional ([...]

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    3. Install the adapter key (dongle) (DTS #E907-02) into a USB port on your PC after the software has completed installation.   Note: It is the responsibility of the owner of the DTS Pr o Series Surround Encoder to keep the adapter key (dongle) in a safe and secure location. If the adapter is lost, DTS has no obligation to replace it. If the a[...]

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      Important: Proper privileges ar e requir ed to install and uninstall Surround Encoder software, including the WIBU driver for the auto-detected adapter key . Displaying System information Click the Apple icon at the top left of the screen and select About this Mac. The operating system name will display in a pop-up box, along with the versi[...]

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    5. Double-click the blue WIBU Vise icon to launch the installer . Choose Easy Install . The wizar d will take you through the r est of the procedure. 6. Install the DTS Encoder . Double-click on the icon DTSPr oSeriesEncoder .pkg to start the installer . The wizar d will take you through the rest of the procedur e.   Important: The package mu[...]

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    2. Overview There ar e three components to the Pr o Series Surround Encoder system, Pro Packer , Pro Encoder , and Pro Encrypter utility .   Important: All audio files to be encoded must first be processed using the Pro Packer . Start with the Pro Packer The purpose of the Pro Packer is to bring all the sour ce audio files together into a sin[...]

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    3. Using the Pro Packer Start the DTS Multi-channel Pro Packer (activate the Pr o Packer icon). The Pro Packer scr een will display . Figure 2. Pro Packer — Initial screen Our example In this example, 48 kHz files are being packed and then encoded to produce a DTS 5.1 DVD. 1. Select channel mapping L C R for the front channels. See T able 1, page[...]

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    3. LFE is set to ON. See T able 1, page 11. 4. Sample rate is set to 48 kHz. The Sample rate here must match the sample rate of the source files. See note 1, after step 12, page 10. 5. 3 dB Rear channel attenuation is left OFF . 3 dB rear channel attenuation is used in cases wher e you have a theatrical master that has not been remixed or r epurpos[...]

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    10. Frame rate: If the audio track is intended to sync with video, be sure to match its frame rate. If the video refer ence is dr op frame , you MUST select dr op frame her e. If it is important to match the start of the audio track to some specific point in the video, enter the Start time her e, in hours:minutes:seconds:frames (hh:mm:ss:ff) format[...]

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    12. Repeat step 11 for the other channels. Input files have been selected for all channels. For each input file, the sample rate, bit depth, and duration is identified. See note 1, below . Use the duration information to check that the input files are identical in length. See note 2, below . Special Case: This packer will accept a ster eo source fi[...]

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    Click “Pack and Encode” to generate the packed file and launch the encoder . (If the output file alr eady exists, the Packer will prompt you to overwrite it.) The above prompt will display when the packing is finished. Then the Surround Encoder pr ogram will be automatically activated (next step). At this point, the packed file(.agm extension) [...]

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    4. Encoding Immediately after Packing Since we chose “Pack and Encode” in our example, the Pr o Surround Encoder program starts automatically when the Packer is finished (Figur e 3) and runs in a separate window on the desktop. Figure 3. DTS Pro Series Surr ounf Encoder Screen 1. Almost all the settings on this page are carried over fr om the P[...]

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    3. These fields are automatically filled with information carried in the packed file. Reset — click this button to r eload the values from the packed file, if necessary . 4. Bit Rate and Output type For 44.1 kHz and 88.2 kHz source files, only one bit rate (1234800) and output type (.wav) are possible. W ith 48 kHz source files for DVD encoding, [...]

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    5. Click the Encode button. A window will prompt you to r eview the encoder settings and confirm. Click Encode. A progr ess bar will display . 6. When encoding is finished, a confirmation prompt will appear . It indicates the output file name and location. Click OK. In the Output directory , you will see two additional files, the .log (encoding r e[...]

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    Click “Pack local file” to generate the output file. (If the output file already exists, the Packer will prompt you to overwrite it.) This prompt will display when the packing is finished. In the selected output directory , you will see an additional file — the .agm packed file. 2. In the Source file section, use the Br owse function to selec[...]

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    6. In the DTS Settings section, choose the Bit Rate, Output type, and Dialog Normalization factor . (See step 4 on page 13 for explanation.) 3dB rear channel attenuation is display-only her e. This parameter is set in the Packer . (See step 5 on page 8 for explanation.) Bit Rate and Output type fields are automatically determined by the sample rate[...]

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    7. Click the Encode button. A confirmation prompt will appear . Review the settings and, if they are OK, click Encode. 8. A status bar at the bottom of the screen will indicate the pr ogress of the encode task. Next, a prompt will inform you that the encoding task is finished. Click OK. In the output directory , the output file (.cpt in this exampl[...]

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    6. Encrypting a File Use the Pro Encrypter pr ogram to encrypt an .agm packed file for sending over an unsecure network to another location. The DTS Pro Encrypter scr een will display . Figure 4: Encryption Utility screen 1. In the Source section, use the Br owse function to select the source .agm file to be encrypted. The information about the sou[...]

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    3. Enter a password (at least 8 characters long), and type the passwor d again to confirm. 4. Click the Encrypt button to begin the process. A confirmation prompt will display . Review the choices, then click Y es to pr oceed. 5. A progr ess bar will display at the bottom of the screen while the encryption is processing, then this confirmation pr o[...]

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    7. DVD Authoring for DTS A complete discussion of audio encoding for DTS can be found in DVD-Video Production with DTS Coherent Acoustics Audio, document number E818, which can be downloaded from the DTS website at: http://www .dtsonline.com/media/uploads/pdfs/DVD_Authoring.pdf 8. Uninstalling the Software PC V ersion For the Windows version, open [...]

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    7. Move any aliases you manually created to the T rash. 8. Empty the T rash after deleting the above files and folder . 9. Dialog Normalization Dialog Normalization is the use of metadata to control playback level. It has no effect on encoding or decoding. It is an instruction to playback equipment to adjust the level of all channels, post-decoding[...]

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    The purpose of DIALNORM is to achieve a consistent level of dialog from one program or pr ogram source to the next. End-users set volume to achieve a pleasing and intelligible level of dialog. However , dialog level varies considerably across dif ferent pr ogram types. For example, in a feature motion pictur e, dialog typically averages -27 dBFS Le[...]

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    DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder – Installation and User Manual 28 Refer questions to: DTS Customer Service T el: (818) 706-3525 (800) 959-4109 (USA only) Fax: (818) 879-2746 Email: proaudio@dtsonline.com DTS Pro Series surr ound enc oder A Full-Featured Suite for T oday’s Digital Audio Workstation DTS technologies deliver the highest quality au[...]