• Adobe Premiere Pro

  avoid unwanted audio tracks in a sequence when inserting a clip with multiple audio tracks

  Posted by Mario Kenno on October 28, 2013 at 1:13 pm

  Hi there,

  I’m getting mad to solve this… issue? I have in my projects some clips with 16 audio tracks (this because the footage was recorded with the Blackmagic HyperDeck Shuttle) and when I insert/overwrite these clips to the timeline, all the audio tracks are added to the sequence (my sequence has 6 audio tracks, and I’m fine with that number): so, after this edit, I have a sequence with 16 audio tracks and I can’t find the way to leave the audio tracks number in my sequence unaltered.

  In FCP, if I have a clip with 16 audio tracks and a sequence with just two audio tracks and I make an insert/overwrite to the timeline of that clip enabling just track 1-2, I’ll end up with a clip in the timeline with two audio tracks and sequence’s audio tracks do not increase to 16… why Premiere Pro behaves this way?!? Do I have to delete all unwanted audio tracks manually each time I add these clips to my timeline?

  Thanks all for useful replies.
  mk

  Mario Kenno replied 12 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  James Kumorek

  October 29, 2013 at 10:43 am

  After importing the clips into the project, right click on any or all of them, pick Modify, and then Audio Channels. You can them customize which audio channels get used, and in what way, when you add the clip to a sequence.
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  Mario Kenno

  October 29, 2013 at 12:05 pm

  mmh… I see. I tried yesterday this way, and it solve my problem. But… I found this method, and indeed Premiere Pro philosophy, a bit muddled: things/actions than can be achieved in FCP with just 2-3 mouse clicks, or even faster with keyboard shortcuts (moreover without modifying a clip), need in PP more time/clicks to get the same result. Of course, imho… just a FCP 7 > Premiere Pro switcher.

  Thx again for your reply.

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