Creative Communities of the World Forums

The peer to peer support community for media production professionals.

Activity Forums Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy Stereo vs. two mono tracks

  • Stereo vs. two mono tracks

    Posted by Naveen Mallikarjuna on September 22, 2010 at 6:32 pm

    I have a video file with stereo audio, both L & R channels. I put the clip on the sequence timeline. I double-click the audio portion to bring it up in the viewer so I can keyframe the levels.

    But instead of both L & R channels coming up, only one does.

    On other files, both appear in the Viewer. What gives? How does FCP determine what is an actual stereo track vs. a mono track?

    Martin Curtis replied 15 years, 11 months ago 5 Members · 8 Replies
  • 8 Replies
  • David Roth weiss

    September 22, 2010 at 6:56 pm

    Clips can be linked/unlinked individually or by hitting the Shift-L command you can toggle the global link/unlink command for your timeline. You must have turned it off.

  • Michael Sacci

    September 22, 2010 at 7:17 pm

    In the timeline, is there triangles touching at bottom of track 1 and top of track 2, this shows that the audio is stereo (if there). When you capture or log and transfer footage into FCP you can set audio to be either stereo or mono.

  • Naveen Mallikarjuna

    September 22, 2010 at 8:30 pm

    This doesn’t seem to be the problem.

    I’m importing a MOV exported from After Effects. The audio output is set to Stereo.

    I import into FCP. Everything is linked. The video and the audio for both tracks 1 and 2. However, the arrows that Michael mentions aren’t there. Instead, it’s recognizing the audio as two linked mono tracks, not stereo.

    Naveen

  • Rafael Amador

    September 23, 2010 at 4:40 am

    [Naveen Mallikarjuna] “How does FCP determine what is an actual stereo track vs. a mono track?”
    FC doesn’t decides nothing.
    is the file that has the audio Mono or Stereo.
    Open the file in QT, and check in the Info Window the kind of audio you are dealing with.
    rafael

    http://www.nagavideo.com

  • Martin Curtis

    September 23, 2010 at 11:01 am
  • Naveen Mallikarjuna

    September 23, 2010 at 3:27 pm

    Awesome. Thank you!

    Naveen

  • David Roth weiss

    September 24, 2010 at 3:00 pm

    My God, Apple wrote a manual in Austailian… That’s amazing.

  • Martin Curtis

    September 25, 2010 at 12:48 pm

    I had to rotate my screen 180° in order to read it.

We use anonymous cookies to give you the best experience we can.
Our Privacy policy | GDPR Policy