• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  dual mono audio question

  Posted by Paul Waide on October 21, 2006 at 1:21 pm

  If I have a dual mono timeline, and import a stereo audio clip(like music), how can i conform it to the dual mono so I can pan it full right or left. Also is there a way to force tracks to edit to tape on certain output channels. Say I’m trying to make a Superless split audio version of a show? The manual is not very clear on this….

  thanks
  PW

  Paul Waide replied 19 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Andy Mees

  October 21, 2006 at 2:35 pm

  right click directly on or around the Track Lock icon and/or Auto Select icon in the timeline … the context menu will have “Audio Output” as the first item in the list … move your mouse onto this and you’ll see a submenu from which you can choose onto which channel to output the selected track
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  Bouncing Account needs new email address

  October 21, 2006 at 2:41 pm

  Select (highlight) the mono clip on the timeline.

  Modify (menu) > Stereo Pair > (UN-Check)

  Pan any way you’d like.

  If it were me, after I turned off the “Stereo Pair,” I’d delete the 2nd mono clip so I’d only have to deal with one. To make it in the “center” of the mix again, just pan it to “0” (center).

  You can duplicate your timeline and create a “custom mix” on any of the copies (as you said, putting any clip on either channel) by Selecting (highlighting) the clips and

  Modify (menu) > Audio > Pan Left -or- Pan Right.
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  Bret Williams

  October 22, 2006 at 3:22 pm

  You’ll also have to change the sequence settings to reflect the number of audio output tracks. You will also need to change the audio/video setttings for FCP to the number of audio output tracks.

  Strange, but that’s sorta how it works. The system has a number of output tracks. Then each sequence can utilize all or some of those. With DV, you can even get 4 audio track output if you switch the system audio settings to 32khz, and then your sequence settings to 4 track output.

  You can also map the tracks in the mixer instead of the timeline. In the mixer, all the way to the left is the list of tracks. Right click on them.

  When it’s all set up right, you should see more level meters in the audio mixer instead of the standard 2. If you’ve got 8 outputs then you’ll see 8 level meters.

  You can set up custom presets and easy setups for all this to make switching around a matter of a few keystrokes.
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  Paul Waide

  October 26, 2006 at 2:21 am

  Thanks for all the answers, this is exactly what i needed to know. If only the manual were this helpful…
  Cheers!

  Paul W

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