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Creating Splits
After prepping a project to be onlined how would i go about creating splits of the audio?
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Hold the Alt button while you drag the audio in the timeline.
Or use shift-L to unlink the selection of video/audio clips in the timeline -
Depending on how your network wants the show delivered should dictate how you want to prep your audio splits, for my broadcaster, they ultimately want a DA88 with Music on Tk 1 & 2, Dialogue 3, TV / Film Clips 4, SFX 5, MED 6 & 7, and Narration on 8, so I diagram out how each episode is going to work.
I usually work in even numbers to keep everything straight, and arrange my VO on tracks 1 & 2 (even though realistically I’ve only ever needed one track), I put all Dialogue on Tk 3 – 6 (even I need that much). Since this is an investigative documentary program, we have a lot of TV and Film clips that I put on Tracks 7 & 8, or 7 -10 if there are overlapping clips or excessing bleeping. Beyond that, I find that the SFX tracks vary depending the graphics, and is never the same so that’s one that you want to write down (I usually create a quick text file to keep my track orders straight) and Music is set below that.
Then, since the texted master requires Stereo Mix & MED undipped, and the textless requires Dialogue at full, SFX at Full, and MED and Final mix level, I separate which sequences I use to create the appropriate stems.
I use my texted master sequence to create my stereo mix stems, and my MED stems (since I only have to disable the VO tracks to get the MED). Then in my textless sequence, I remove all dips for narration from the music, and bring the SFX up to full level (without peaking above -10, as per their spec) and use that to create my Music, SFX, DIA, and NAR stems.
The MED, M&E Undipped, & Stereo Mix are all stereo tracks so I export AIF set to stereo mix for those. As for the others, I export them using quicktime conversion to spit out mono stems. Keep in mind, that if you are creating a mono stem from stereo tracks, you will need to lower the mono stem by 3 db before you lay it back, or it will be too hot.
The handiest keyboard shortcut for moving audio clips around that I use, is option and the arrow keys to move clips up and down tracks without changing their position in the timeline.
This is based on just one broadcaster’s spec, so you should make sure you’re prepping them stems according to how your broadcaster wants them, but this should help.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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