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Audio Channel confusion
I am new to Premiere from FCP. I’m working with audio that was recorded to the left channel. I set my Premiere Pro Preferences to except all audio as Adaptive for what I thought gave me the maximum flexibility, but now I can’t get my audio in the timeline to play both left & right channels. In FCP, I would just adjust the pan. I can’t seem to do that here. My edit is already cut together in the sequence…so changing the Premiere Pro Preferences NOW to Mono isn’t modifiying already edited material. Understood. … So what do I do? How can I get both Left & Right the same? Can I relink the media? Copy & paste sequences? Adjust each clip? Export an EDL and reopen it?
TIA,
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Apply Fill Left from the audio effects or in the Audio Mixer for the whole track.
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Thanks, but it’s not allowing me to drop in that audio effect.
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My guess is that the clip giving you trouble was captured as a stereo clip and the camera mic audio was recorded to the left channel. If you just want to get it to work now create a new audio track as Mono and drag all the audio tracks that only go out the left channel to that new track. That should make the audio clip appear as mono just make sure they don’t go out of sync.
“Appear mono” because the clip actually isn’t. What needed to be done prior to editing was to recognize what each clips audio channels were captured as. This info can be found in the bin under Audio Info. You can modify how a audio is perceived in Premiere by right clicking the clip in the bin and selecting Modify > Audio Channels. This allows you to change a stereo track into separate mono tracks and so on…
hope that helps,
Victor
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Thanks Victor. Makes sense, but I can’t physically drag the audio track (L volume, R no audio) down into the new mono track. Lessoned learned for next time – but any more suggestions? My plan is to Reveal, each clip, in the Project, then bring it back into the timeline now that the tracks are set to Mono.
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I couldn’t pull the audio into the mono track – not too sure why. However, I did bring it into a new stereo map & changed the Audio Channel Output Mapping which seemed to work.
Also you mentioned to make sure when dragging to a new track to be careful not to go out of sync. I see that when the clips are linked there is an out of sync alert if it’s out of sync. Is there any setting in Premiere where I can see this all the time like FCP? There are a few must haves that I’m not finding in Premiere that I’m wrestling with.
Thanks.
Heather
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