• Adobe Audition

  Using multi-channel files

  Posted by Geoff Bailey on December 1, 2012 at 10:41 pm

  I’m just making the switch over to Audition and can’t find the following in the help.

  I do a lot of film work so I get multi-channel WAV files from production. When I drag them into a track, they show up as 6-channel files. How do I choose which channel to use?

  I see that in the File Window I can extract mono files from the multi-channel wav, but that creates 6 separate files. With thousands of WAV files that just makes my project window even messier.

  Is there a way to select in the multi-track editor window which channel to use? And even better, is there a way I can switch back and forth (say I start the mix with the boom on channel 1 and then later decide to switch to the lav on channel 3)?

  Thanks.

  Geoff Bailey
  Creative Director
  Loyalkaspar
  http://www.loyalkaspar.com

  Christopher O’brien replied 12 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Joseph W. bourke

  December 13, 2012 at 7:35 pm

  Hi Geoff –

  Sorry this response took so long – according to Adobe, Audition will handle multi-channel files:

  https://blogs.adobe.com/audition/2011/04/surround-yourself-natively-with-5-1-multichannel-editing-and-mixing.html

  Joe Bourke
  Owner/Creative Director
  Bourke Media
  http://www.bourkemedia.com
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  Geoff Bailey

  December 13, 2012 at 7:52 pm

  Thanks for getting back to me, Joseph, but unfortunately that post doesn’t address my problem. The 6-channel audio files aren’t 5.1 files. They are standard six-channel WAV files where boom is on 1, mix is on 5 and 6 and 2-4 are various wireless lav mics.

  The problem is that when I drag them into a track all 6 channels play down. Obviously this doesn’t work. I want to be able to have (let’s say) only ch. 1 (boom) play.

  As I said, I know I can extract mono files in the project window, but that creates 6 times the number of files in the project window. I’m hoping there is a more elegant way to do it.

  In Soundtrack Pro, for instance, if you hold option when you drag them into a track, the 6-channels will come in as mono on six different tracks. I can select the one I want. And if I want to change it later, I just right click on it and switch the channel that is playing back.

  Geoff Bailey
  Creative Director
  Loyalkaspar
  http://www.loyalkaspar.com
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  Christopher O’brien

  September 29, 2013 at 10:40 pm

  Im having the exact same problem. Did you ever find a solution to this?

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