• Apple Final Cut Pro

  Export Roles as Multitrack Quicktime – 1 Stereo 2 Monos LUFS problems?

  Posted by Travis Marshall on October 29, 2015 at 3:09 pm

  Hi all,

  I delivered a season of shows last June which required Pro Res files with 1 stereo track and 2 mono tracks of the same (no M&E, just mono print of the same stereo).

  I originally created two separate audio clips of the final mix WAV in the timeline – one for the stereo and one for the mono channels.

  But it occurred to me that I should be able to use roles to do the same thing as a multitrack Quicktime file. So I tried using just the stereo mix as the only role, and then made three iterations of it in the multitrack export pane:

  Stereo Mix – Stereo
  Stereo Mix – Mono
  Stereo Mix – Mono

  This worked and gave me a proper 4 channel Pro Res file, but when I listened back in my DAW with a LUFS monitor active, the mono tracks were 3db louder than the stereo, when they should be -3db softer. Has anyone figured out a way to do this? FCP 7 always had an option to lower the mono tracks -3db…

  Thanks!

  Mac Pro 3 GHz 8-Core Intel Xeon E5, 32 GB Ram, AMD FireProD700
  OSX 10.10.5, FCP 10.2.1

  Travis Marshall replied 10 years, 7 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
• 0 Replies

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up