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Split Stereo Music to left and right channels on output
How can I take a stereo music track (single track with 1 file containing the left and right music) and on output send the left side of the music to Channel 1 on the tape and the right side of the music to Channel 2?
I know I can turn the music to mono tracks and lay it across 2 tracks, one for left and one for right, before I lay it in my sequence. Then direct each track to a separate channel. I also know I can duplicate a music track and use Fill Left / Fill Right to get it onto two separate tracks for routing to my final channels. But in both cases I end up with the same music in 2 tracks and if I have to make last minute level changes I have to do it to both tracks.
Is there a way I can set up my audio channel and track layout when I initially create a sequence that would route 1 tracks left to one channel and right to a second channel? It seems like there should be a pan option in Channel Output Mapping that would allow me to pan Input 1 to the left and assign to Channel 1. Then pan Input 2 to the right and assign to Channel 2.
Perhaps I’m tackling it the wrong way.
Thanks.
Don Hertz
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4 Replies
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in preferences, you can set up the default treatment for stereo audio to be dual mono…then the stereo track would come to the timeline as two mono tracks.
Is that what you’re looking for?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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If I do that, as I mix my music won’t I have to be adding keyframes and adjusting both tracks independently? Or is is possible to link the two so that when adding a keyframe to one it auto-adds to the other and volume adjustments match up too?
I like the idea of working with the stereo music file as a single track, from an editing standpoint. But at output time I have to have Stereo Left on channel 1 and Stereo Right on channel 2.
Don
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In the process of trying to “simplify” the audio they made it way over complicated. Many times when I just have 2 tracks like L and R I see 4 in the mixer and I’m not seeing double. It finally dawned on me they more or less added in-line sub mixers as ways to deal with “adaptive” tracks, but they didn’t give you and sort of real guide as to how the audio is being routed and a way to easily change it when it’s not right. I thought I had it figured out and it still throws me for a loop and I’ve been doing this a long time.
But basically, if you’re track is set as stereo which I think can be changed by right clicking on it and setting it’s properties to stereo if it isn’t already, and by having not only a stereo sequence but also an adaptive, or standard track in the sequence, you can get what looks like a single track that is in fact stereo.
I would hope that they would fix this. There are many better ways to do this. All they would have to do for instance is nest the tracks where double clicking would open it up to see all of the individual tracks with mapping and gain. Click again and it looks like a single track. They’ll never do it. Also in 25 years of editing, I’ve used 5.1 source tracks on one project so I’m not sure why they spent a lot of time trying to accommodate those.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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[Robert Brown] “Also in 25 years of editing, I’ve used 5.1 source tracks on one project so I’m not sure why they spent a lot of time trying to accommodate those.
“Yes…and a user who works with surround sound every day wonders why Adobe doesn’t make that the default configuration…each of us has our own typical workflow, and each of us need to come to terms with the idea that there are other workflows that are just as legitimate as our own. I might find a feature unnecessary, but for someone else, it’s critical.
There is training out there on how audio works in Premiere Pro…
The audio capabilities in PPro have been considerable ever since the “Pro” was added in 2003…and it’s been added to since.However, like any other NLE, it’s pretty hard to simply launch it and understand the overall approach by osmosis.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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