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Audio Track Display
Is there a way to display the audio track as a “combined” stereo track (both channels on the same track as opposed to the left and right separately) like in Premiere or Vegas?
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7 Replies
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Nope!!!
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles -
No, a stereo pair is in fact two audio channels. Premiere and Vegas do a lot of hand-holding for thier users. FCP is a pro app, and assumes you know what things really are.
I’d ask what your purpose is in combining them to one track? What need would that fullfil for you?
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The advantage is that you only need to deal with one track on the timeline, yet you still have the 2 channels of audio. It’s a feature that was available on the “pro app” Pinnacle systems…and probably still is.
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If you’re really pressed for screen space. I mix things through edits in my audio tracks a lot, so it’s not a feature that would help me, personally. I was asking what need it would fullfill to find that out. I find lots of folks as why this or that, just cause the feature was there in other NLEs, not cause it actually does anything for productivity.
I’ve never run out of screen real estate, and I may have mono tracks mixed in with those two stereo tracks, so for me, it’s a non-issue. But if you’re pressed for screen space, I can see it would help a little bit. I’m not overly familiar with Vegas or Preimere, so I have no idea how they handle changing those stereo pairs to mono tracks, and back. How does that work?
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In Vegas, you would just set the stereo track to play the left (or right) channel only.
It’s great that FCP is getting more and more exposure as a pro application, but there’s nothing wrong with allowing customization. Avid still doesn’t realize that, I hope Apple will look that into account…
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“In Vegas, you would just set the stereo track to play the left (or right) channel only.
It’s great that FCP is getting more and more exposure as a pro application, but there’s nothing wrong with allowing customization. Avid still doesn’t realize that, I hope Apple will look that into account…?”
That’s not my question, I can do that in FCP, too. But in Vegas, if a stereo pair is on a Timeline on only one track, how do you seperate it out into two mono tracks easily? Not just pan them, I can do that in any NLE.
As for FCP being customizable, it is, very much so. As for FCP getting more and more exposure as a pro app, that’s been happening for a decade now. Vegas didn’t invent anything, just picked up where everyone else had already developed to.
Lots I don’t know about Vegas, but you post a comment about FCP that’s not acurate, forgive me for correcting it. It’s not about FCP getting exposure, that’s been done for years now. It’s about Vegas getting exposure as a “pro app” IMHO. Vegas doesn’t have anything like Cinema Tools from what I understand, to do film conforms. Not to get into a pissing match, but, let’s focus on the subject at hand, dealing with stereo/mono tracks, linking and unlinking them.
Different workflows in different NLEs, if there was only one king, we’d all be using it, but we’re not.
So, again, how does Vegas switch that stereo pair on one audio track and split it into two independent mono tracks on the fly? Just wondering how other folks do it.
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I don’t know how Vegas does it but on the Pinnacle you just right-click and select Disband. It’s that easy! Then you have 2 separate tracks. It’s very handy to combine a stereo pair into one track since you will manipulate them together for most part. It’s very similar to having a stereo audio source on one slider on an audio mixing console.
So, again, how does Vegas switch that stereo pair on one audio track and split it into two independent mono tracks on the fly? Just wondering how other folks do it.
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