
However, what is a fairly new development is that surround sound is now seriously starting to make its way into home produced films and multimedia. Over the last few years, most new consumer video cameras are equipped with High Definition video capture and 5.1 Surround sound capture. More and more people have surround sound speaker setups in their living rooms and now even low budget video editing programs for PC and Mac computers are equipped with surround sound editing and playback capabilities.
So whether you're editing home videos of your children's birthday party, putting together a YouTube video, editing a corporate video for your company presentation or just having fun and being creative with video, audio and media -- you may want to consider keeping your projects in Surround Sound format all the way through.
Here at 1SoundFX.com we are these days rolling out our first collections of 5.1 Surround sound effects. The sounds are delivered in multi-channel / 6-channel Microsoft WAV format. This format can be read and imported by a multitude of home and professional video editing suites. We have been using Sony Vegas Movie Studio - which is the home/budget version of the bigger, more professional Sony Vegas Pro video editing suite. Both of these programs work just fine with Multichannel WAV files.
At the time of writing, we have surround sound effects available in the following genres:
- Surround Nature Sounds: Here you'll find ocean surf, surround forest ambiance, surround jungle sounds and other natural sounds captured and delivered in full surround.
- Surround Crowd Sounds: The sounds of "people in places". Market stalls, shops and cafes, bars and restaurants, amusement malls, cities and towns - captured and delivered in full surround. Listen to these in surround, close your eyes, and you will really be there!
- Surround Animal Sounds: In this genre we've got some wonderful birdsong recordings in lush gardens with exotic birds singing in all directions.

By the way, if you need the sounds to be delivered to you in AC3 (Dolby Digital) sound file format instead of a Multichannel WAV, you may want to check out the surround sound effects area of our sister-site, Shockwave-Sound.com.
It seems that Home theater systems commonly include a video display unit that measures at least 40 inches, and an audio system that has at least five speakers that provide a surround sound effect and is capable of decoding five or more channels.
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