• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Modify source clips as stereo pairs – FCP7

  Posted by Trevor Asquerthian on October 23, 2014 at 10:32 pm

  I can use alt+l on 2 mono tracks in the timeline to create a stereo pair, but can I modify the source clip to be stereo pairs before I add it to the timeline?

  Thanks

  Trevor Asquerthian replied 11 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  October 23, 2014 at 10:58 pm

  There is no reason to create a stereo pair from two identical mono tracks – you’re much better off simply deleting one track and center panning the remaining track so it plays out of both left and right speakers.

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  Trevor Asquerthian

  October 24, 2014 at 6:37 am

  Sorry, perhaps I wasn’t clear, source clip is actually 8 stereo pairs of audio. However metadata in QT identifies as 16 x mono.

  In avid I modify clip within app to be 8 x stereos. I can’t remember if FCP7 had this as an option – maybe I have to do it within QT7?

  Obvs cutting into timeline before linking as stereo is extra step.
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  Nick Meyers

  October 25, 2014 at 8:32 pm

  Answer is no, you can’t do his in thre browser.

  The trick is to do them en masse in a timeline, them copy / paste back into a new bin.

  Nick
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  Trevor Asquerthian

  October 26, 2014 at 4:49 am

  Thanks Nick

  As I thought. These are many and varied so no easy en masse possibilities. Maybe I’ll figure out an Automator or Butler shortcut…

  Maybe it’ll make it into v7.1 🙂

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