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8 Mono Audio Tracks?
My cameraman shot HD 1080p footage with a professional camera. I only need to log and off-line edit the footage, and then plan to give it to an editor. I have an older version of Premiere – CS3 – and cannot edit the HD clips. He was able to create “proxy” clips of the footage with timecode. This footage is low res and much smaller, and the files are .mov.
Premiere isn’t having a problem playing the footage, but when I drag the clips into a sequence the audio does not go to track 1, but rather tracks 2-9 are created – 8 mono tracks per clip. These .mov files inexplicably have 8 mono tracks!
As you can imagine, these are a lot of tracks to manage. I only need to one or two tracks for my off-line organizational purposes.
Also, when I try to layer video tracks, and drag a new clip onto the sequence, it overwrites the existing audio track at the new in-point, rather than create 8 new audio tracks (which is too many tracks anyway to manage.)
Is there a way to remove or batch remove 6 or 7 of these extra audio tracks from the clips and subclips, so that only one or two tracks is brought to the sequence? Is there a way to set up my sequence so that only 1 or 2 mono tracks are created, rather than one track for each of the 8 mono tracks?
The only way I know how to deal with this now is to drag the clips to the sequence, unlink the audio and picture, delete 6-7 audio tracks, and then relink the remaining audio clip and picture.Thanks in advance for any help.
Dan McGuire -
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Before you drag any of them on the timeline, identify the tracks you need , then select all your clips, go to Clip > Audio option > Source Channel Mappings, and uncheck what you don’t need.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
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