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Add/Remove audio to QT
Hi,
I was hoping that someone might be able to help me. I’m not a video editor and what I’ve learnt has come from self teaching via youtube videos and forum posts and I’ve got a bit stumped.
I’ve working on a microbudget film and we were sent (by a reputable firm) the finished footage as a QT with 1 audio sound track and 8 channels – ch1-6 are 5.1, ch7-8 are stereo. (annoyingly unlabelled inside the QT)
We need to send it to someone new but with only the stereo and a newly created M&E (no dialogue) audio. I have the audio files but I’m struggling with this process.
I know in QT7pro you can delete and add audio files, but these create new audio soundtracks – so in this case it would be soundtrack 1:stereo and sountrack 2:M&E. As we weren’t sent it like this in the first place I’m hesitant that that is the right answer…
Using FCP7 for exporting multiple channels of audio, I also end up with multiple soundtracks as above. If this is the way it should be, I’m wondering why a reputable company sent us the film with the audio split over 8 channels?
Does anyone have any clue as to what the correct way I should be creating this is? I really appreciate any help you might have!
Thank you very much!
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That’s what I’d do. Bring the QT file into FCP…drop it into a sequence…have FCP make the sequence match the clip settings. Add the new audio, do this trick to export Qt with multiple channels of audio:
https://library.creativecow.net/ross_shane/multi-audio/1
Shane
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That’s good to know. Thanks for the response!
So would having 2 different soundtracks on a QT be problematic for any reason? Say if we were to send it to get the QT transferred to HDCam for example?
Thanks again,
Nick
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