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Audio Track Craziness
Hi Guys
I know that you love a simple question with an easy answer – so if you don’t mind giving an opinion that would be great.
I’m having a little problem – I’ve just started editing a feature in Resolve (as I’ll be grading it too) that has been shot on Arri with separate timecode matched audio. Normally I’d love this, especially as the director would like to sit in and see a stack of the takes for each scene then make a choice.
The trouble is that the audio guy recorded 10 individual mono mic tracks for each clip, and ideally I need to be able to access any one of these during the edit. So my stack of 4 takes has 40 mono audio tracks to tun on and off per group of 10, and I won’t even talk about the shots with 20 takes! As you can imagine this is causing mayhem on my timeline – and I know when I get into hour 2 of the film cut Resolve is going to pack up bags and leave the building. I can’t think of a good way to reduce this to a smaller number of tracks for the rough cut selection process that I can still expand back to the 10 tracks for the next stage of the edit easily, or showing just one track while editing all 10, or even grouping them so that an edit or select operation will select the whole 10…
Do you guys have any cunning ideas that I’m missing?
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2 Replies
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Is there audio on all ten tracks for each scene? If not, using clip attributes I would turn off all unused tracks. As a former and still occasional sound recordist, I only enable track record in the field when there is active content. It is just lazy to be throwing blank tracks into post. As I mostly do post, I suggest you talk to the recordist about good practice. If you don’t feedback they keep making assumptions.
I would use mono tracks in the timeline to bring each take in. That way I could solo selected tracks which mutes the rest. I would not stack takes but line them up one after the other in a timeline to review them so the track count doesn’t go nuts. When editing, after keyframing or slicing up the various tracks, you might then compound to tidy up each clip. Before sending to picture & sound post you will need to decompose those clips but so much easier to handle as a compound with all those tracks.
Another thing is to link audio & video so you can just select a clip and hit d which disables picture and all sound if you have stacked takes
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Thanks, Michael, excellent advice that I’ve started to put into practice.
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