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Wrong Audio Channels?
I have a project that a coworker edited and in that edit room my machine’s audio channels are flipped (meaning left is right and right is left). Now, I have moved the project to another edit station and need to recapture at a higher codec. Well, the audio is coming thru firewire (which has the correct audio channels).
My problem is that the original timeline has a video with one audio track that now is the wrong audio track when I reconnect the media. Is there a way to tell FCP to use audio track 2 as audio track 1 so that I don’t have to re-edit this segment?
Confusing ain’t it?
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Wayne Carey
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I’m not sure how you recapturing anything through firewire at a higher codec (unless you are going from dv to DVCPRO HD), but why don’t you capture the audio as analog and flip the channels like in that original editing suite?
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Hi Wayne,
Simply lock your Video trracks (Shift F4), then select your audio track & holding down the Shift key to constrain the tracks so they move out of sync left or right, pull them down to tracks 2 & 3. IF there is no audio 3 track , one will automaticly be created. Then move the track on track 3 to track to track 1. If the 2 audio tracks are linked you’ll want to unlimk them to make this move. To select all the clips on the track you want to move, press the T key then press the Home key to get to the beginning of the timeline then click on the 1st audio clip on the track. This should select all the audio clips on the track. If not press the T key again & click on the 1st clip again. There are many ways to bring the audio track up to track 1 but probably the easiest is simply to do a copy (Commmand C) then select audio track 1 & do a paste (Command V).
All the best
Dave
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I’m sorry gang… its sometimes difficult to put confusing things into words for me from time to time when a dealine is brewing.
Ok…. Here’s my problem. I have a timeline with one video track and one audio track in it. The video is not the problem, the problem is that the one track of audio was captured as audio channel 2 on this edit station, but the machine actually shows the audio on channel 1. This edit station has an AJA IO for video capture, the audio is connected thru the IO also. Its using a Sony HDV deck as its source (downconvert HDV to DV – component video out with analog audio). The deck is controlled by the firewire connection for machine control. I have to capture the footage as DV on this edit station.
Now, I have a project that needs that timeline and footage to be used on another edit station. I copy over the project thru my network and open it in FCP. This edit station has a AJA Kona 2 as its capture card. This room also has a Sony HDV deck installed with an AJA HD10A converter, so that I can convert my deck’s analog HD component out as HD-SDI. I use the firewire port for machine control and for audio. This capture card has no analog audio and video inputs so hooking that up is not an option.
I’m sure you’ll say that could cause problems with sync issues, but I have been using it this way for the past three months without any issues at all.
Now, for the capture process… I capture all of my footage as IMX50 or DVCPRO HD on this edit station. All of the audio comes thru firewire. I have created my custom Easy Setups for these situations. When I capture this footage… my audio now comes in as channel 1, not channel 2 as on the other edit station, and my timeline only has one track of audio which is the wrong audio track now.
Now for the question again…
Is there a way to tell FCP that channel 2 is channel 1 without having to re-edit the timeline? Surely, somebody has seen this or has had this problem before. By the way…. the audio cables have been swapped to their correct order in edit room 1. 🙂
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Wayne Carey
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Got ya. DOn’t know if there’s a way to do that through firewire. What you could do is media manage the project and get rid of all the other media except that timeline. Then you can copy that media over to your other machine, media manage again, but this time keep the audio and recapture only video. That way you don’t have to mess with it. OTherwise, you are going to be recutting the audio I’m afraid. Also, you could get your self an audio d/a capture audio through the KOna 2’s AES/EBU inputs that way.
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Thanks, Jeremy! Your suggestion seemed to be the only solution for my problem but I did simplfiy it a little. I ended up just copying the captured footage thru my network and just relinking the audio only after I unlinked my video and audio sources in the timeline. So, I kept the new video and relinked the old audio – works fine!
Thanks again! I love this resouce of help!
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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