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Channel mapping in CS3 with P2 media
Feel like I am really chasing my tail on this. When I import P2 media, naturally, I get 4 mono tracks along with video. I can select all the imported media and go to mapping and disable the tracks I don’t need (in this case I only need ch 2) Once I do that I cannot monitor the audio in the source window since I no longer have any way to designate which track the source monitor is seeing. If I leave one other channel I can point the source to the channel I want to listen to. Seems like I must be missing something, and really don’t want to have to delete a dead channel every time I make an edit. What am I missing here… not a regular Premiere user (as if that weren’t painfully obvious!)
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What are you monitoring on the other tracks that you don’t need on the timeline?
If you are going to use mapping, it definitely permanent.
Otherwise, if you manage your tracks properly, you should be able to keep 1 assigned to the channel you don’t need and mute it later.
I have to deal with this on interviews since we record a second track at lower level in case the first one peaks.
But I get your point, it can be a pain at first.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Vince,
Thanks for responding. I don’t think I am explaining myself very well. For the gig we’re cutting now we only have audio on ch 2 of all the P2 media. I thought I could just use mapping to drop out all the other tracks so I didn’t have to manage them in the timeline. But I think I am suffering from a fundamental misunderstanding of the logic behind the management of audio. In mapping the other tracks out I loose the ability to hear channel 2 audio in the source window. It seems that the source monitor is looking to play audio from a track that is mapped out.
If I leave two tracks enabled in mapping (Ch1 with no audio , and ch 2 with our field audio) I can at least use the selection feature to pick the track. But that requires toggling from composite video to waveform and then selecting the track for every clip you bring through the source monitor. I can’t imagine that is really how this is supposed to operate.
If you can point me in the right direction…
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Jim,
Indeed, something is not working properly.
So you are set to mono, and unchecked all channel besides 2?
And you are certain it’s 2 and not 4? I mention it since that happened to me a couple of times… Channel order is switched if you are not using external audio (if a remember right) and that’s easy to verify looking at the mixer panel.
Other than that, the only other thing I can think of is looking at the audio hardware mapping and ASIO settings in the preferences.
Delete the audio cache files, I’ll see if I can think of anything else…
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
And what sound card are you working with, just 2 channels?
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Vince,
Thanks for giving this so much thought. I am using a blackmagic card, but mostly just for the video and editing with internal audio using headphones. As soon as any clips get on the timeline everything is fine, its just the source monitor issue. Once I set the channel mapping and drop a clip into the source monitor I can view the waveform, just can’t hear it. If I don’t map anything, I can select channel 2 in the source monitor (after first selecting waveform) and can monitor. Its like something I am doing when I map down to that one channel that is causing this problem…
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