• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  More audio tracks questions

  Posted by Larry Asbell on February 17, 2010 at 2:02 pm

  The “Audio Tracks ‘by mistake’!!!” thread has a lot of great problems solvers. Thanks!

  I’ve got two follow-up questions also about multiple audio channels, but best to start a new thread.

  Audio Channel question 1:
  What is the easiest way to individually monitor the channels of a source clip, i.e. to check for the best mic or best quality single channel — before splicing it in? The track monitoring “speaker” buttons and solo “headphone” buttons only control monitoring of tracks already in the sequence. And the audio controls in the viewer’s tabs don’t have a simple on/off control.

  Audio Channel question 2:
  After an audio track is spliced into a sequence is there any way to tell from which channel of the source clip it originally came? For example, you (or another editor) figured out which channel of an interview has the best mic, and spliced it into track 1. Now you want to add in another clip and be sure to use the same mic for consistency. Is there any way to read which channel was used earlier?

  – Larry Asbell

  Larry Asbell replied 16 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Tom Wolsky

  February 17, 2010 at 2:41 pm

  Audio 1 can only be done in the timeline, unless you have good speakers or good headphones with separation.

  Audio 2: There isn’t any way to tell without comparing it to the master clip. Good feature request though, the clip opened from the timeline into the viewer should show whether it’s mono 1, 2, 3, or 4. Currently it always shows as mono 1 regardless of which original track it came from.

  All the best,

  Tom

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  Andy Mees

  February 17, 2010 at 3:29 pm

  Hey Larry

  You can solo and mute both source and sequence audio by using the Audio Mixer tool window (Opt-6) … just set the source to Auto.

  As Tom notes, no way to discern the originating track … has always bugged me.

  Best
  Andy
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  Larry Asbell

  February 17, 2010 at 4:16 pm

  [Andy Mees] “You can solo and mute both source and sequence audio by using the Audio Mixer tool window (Opt-6) … just set the source to Auto.

  Excellent Andy! That escaped my notice but it works just great.

  Too bad about lack of visible indication of the source audio channel. FCP clearly keeps track of that info internally, but no where does it let you see it.

  – Larry Asbell

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