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  • How to change volume of stereo tracks in one drag on the rubber band.

    Posted by Karel Voners on July 16, 2012 at 2:03 pm

    Dear all,

    I’m testing Premiere coming from FCP.

    I have to adjust the volume of a stereo track with the rubber band. However it seems you have to adjust the rubber band individually on the left and right channel… this drives me nuts.

    Anyone any idea on how to change the levels of both L and R in one go?

    Also, am I doing something wrong that whenever I drag a clip with stereo track on the timeline the stereo track seems to appear on 2 separate mono tracks?

    Cheers,
    Karel.

    Attached is what it all looks like.

    Christopher May replied 12 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Angelo Lorenzo

    July 16, 2012 at 5:09 pm

    Two solutions:

    – Keyframe one track. Go to the Effects Control panel and select Volume and hit copy. Select the second track, and select Volume in the Effects Control panel and hit paste. This will copy keyframes.

    – Create a stereo submix track, assign the two channels and keyframe the volume of the submix.

    Whichever solution floats your boat since you’re working in dual channel stereo.

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  • Karel Voners

    July 16, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    Hi Angelo, thanks for your reply.

    Is this workaround the only way?

    I feel I should clarify that the two tracks only contain 2 mono audio tracks. So there are no multiple stereo tracks involved.

    The direct audio recorded with the video was a single channel stereo.

    When I put the clip on the timeline and try to adjust the volume by dragging the rubber band, you have to do it individually for both the L and the R channel.

    Thanks!
    K.

  • Ann Bens

    July 16, 2012 at 8:21 pm

    Go to edit/preferences/audio
    Set multichannel mono media to Stereo.
    That will give you one audio track.

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  • Karel Voners

    July 17, 2012 at 8:15 am

    It doesn’t seem to be working. I tried a bunch of settings.

    Here are some screenshots of them. I changed everything to stereo and… nothing…

    If it’s so difficult to do this I don’t think PP seems worth the trouble…

    This is the prefs dialog box:

    This is the sequence settings dialog box: (how vague can “standard” be anyway…)

    This is the end result on the track, two tracks with individual rubber bands:

  • Ann Bens

    July 18, 2012 at 12:03 am

    If you change settings you need to re-import the clip again.
    See if that will work.

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  • Christopher May

    March 14, 2014 at 5:05 pm

    Thanks Ann! That was the perfect solution for me!

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