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4 channel P2 audio – only one channel plays
I have some 4 channel P2 clips that when placed in the timeline all 4 channels get placed in the timeline as mono, but in actual fact only one of the channels actually plays. All 4 waveforms are identical. If I bring them into FCP I get 4 distinct channels. I even XML’ed a PP to FCP and all the channels were in FCP and then XML’s it back to PP just to get a quadrupled single channel. I’m using CS5 on a Mac.
This is driving me nuts. Why does PP have to treat audio like this. Any suggestions appreciated.
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This is not standard behavior.
How are you sending the files back and forth between FCP and PP? You aren’t, by chance, importing the .mov files created by log and transfer into PP are you? I’ve never tried that but I know PP doesn’t work so well with Quicktimes with more then 2 audio channels.
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Yes. they were files that were originally imported via FCP Log and Transfer. I ended up transcoding them to ProRes with pass-through audio and now I get 4 distinct channels. There are a log of little things with PP that are taking away the advantage I thought it had over FCP.
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Well, you can probably chock this one up to Quicktime rather then Premiere. Just strip out the audio channels and import them separately and then merge the clips back together.
Or, if you have the original MXFs just import them and it’ll all work.
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Don’t have the originals. Like I said transcoding to ProRes worked. Don’t know why though.
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Glad to know that 4 channels in ProRes works. I miss understood when you told me it worked before.
I’ve heard of multichannel .mov files not working before, but I’m glad to hear they can work, that it isn’t a problem every time.
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