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  • Can you link 4 channel audio?

    Posted by Christie Allanson on July 18, 2016 at 8:51 pm

    Hi,

    Using FCP 7, I’ve got footage here with 4 channels of audio (though sound only visible in waveforms on first two channels). I was wondering if you can link them and make them act like a stereo pair, like you can with two channels?
    For example, I’m using the pen tool a lot, and at the moment I have to draw on each channel separately which is pretty time consuming. Is there a way I can draw on one and it copies on the others, like with a stereo pair?

    Thankyou!

    Christie Allanson replied 9 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Shane Ross

    July 18, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    Highlight them and press CMD-L.

    Shane
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  • Nick Meyers

    July 19, 2016 at 7:54 am

    Yes, and no.

    yes you can links the 4 tracks, as Shane says, (and indeed you SHOULD have them linked)
    but no, they won’t behave the way you want them to, like a Stereo clip.

    your rubber-banding of the audio level is on a single track only.
    often this is good, as the separate tracks often have quite different audio.
    but when you quickly want al tracks to follow that same volume graphing, its a pain.

    what i do after key-faring the first track, is to select the clip (all tracks)
    Copy (Command C)
    then Paste Attributes (Option Command V)

    you get a warning “can only copy from the first track” (or something like that), but that’s OK.
    select Levels in the Paste Attributes window, hit OK, and you’re done.

    still a bit of a drag….

    obviously if it’s to ease something in or out, just add an audio transition.

    cheers,
    nick

  • Christie Allanson

    July 20, 2016 at 6:29 pm

    Oh yes, I should’ve been more clear. They are indeed linked, I just wanted them to behave like a pair.
    Paste attributes is much faster than drawing 4 times – brilliant, thank you.

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