18 Channels with streams in CC17

[Tero Ahlfors]

[Lauren Quinn] “However, bring back into premiere”

What are your default audio import options?

[Lauren Quinn]

For importing back to premiere I’ve just been doing a ctrl+I and then create new sequence from clip. If there’s further import settings for audio where can I access them to check?

[Brent Marginet]

I may not quite understand your exact problem but let’s see if this helps you.
I’ve used this many times in similar situations.
One thing that I don’t like about Media Encoder is that I cannot designate how audio tracks are handled on exports.
Example: If I select say an 8 Channel Export QT will report them as 8 Mono Tracks or 7.1.
I’ve run into the same situation as you where either a Broadcaster or Distributer will not accept them this way.
They want them all designated as Discrete Audio Tracks. My guess is that the Audio Tracks are tagged differently
and Broadcast Servers screw up the Track Allocations when not tagged as Discrete Tracks.
Who knows but what I’m going to suggest has worked for me many times?

I’m not sure if your running Mac or PC but if it’s Mac install Quicktime 7.6.6 for Snow Leopard and if it’s a PC install the most current Version. You will also need to find a Pro Serial number to be able to do what I’m going to suggest.

1 – Open your Video in QT 7.
2 – Hit CMD or CTRL I depending on what platform your on.
3 – Hit CMD or CTRL J.
4 – Click on Sound Track 1 and then Audio Settings.
5 – Change each Track from Mono to Discrete 0, Discrete 1, etc. etc.
6 – If there are a Sound Track 2, 3 and so on keep doing the same thing till they are all done.

Just make sure you never use the same Discrete Allocation more than once.
You will see the Audio Allocations changing from ??? to Discrete x each time you change one in the info pain.

When you have finished all of this just hit CMD or CTRL S and voila QT Reports 18 Discrete Audio Tracks.
You will see Discrete 0, 1, 2 … 15, 16 ,17 for 18 Tracks like in your example.

Hope this helps.

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[Lauren Quinn]

Hi there,
Yeah I’ve already used QT Pro to assign/label/tag each track. Well actually, QT reads it in the correct order, so what I did was label them as something else, save, and then label it as I needed it. As before, QT interprets the tracks okay but NLEs are having a hard time doing so. It’s just really frustrating that QT has no problem but NLEs do, and I can’t say that I’ve solved the problem until I get it reading the same on any platform. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

[Tero Ahlfors]

[Lauren Quinn] “If there’s further import settings for audio where can I access them to check?”

Preferences – audio – default audio tracks

[Lauren Quinn] “create new sequence from clip”

This won’t usually work with unusual audio track layouts.

[Lauren Quinn]

I have actually managed to solve this now, by looking in modify> audio channels and then setting it up as adaptive. So to conclude, the export was correct, and the interpretation of the import was incorrect. Thank you for your comments, it pushed me in the right direction to solve this one.