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After using Merge Clips in CS6, the resulting file now has two audio tracks
Hey guys,
I’m running into a weird problem after using the Merge Clips option. I have my video and audio selected, I’ve already moved the audio so they’re both synced. It looks like this:
Then I use Merge Clips and pull the new file into a new sequence which in turn looks like this:
I checked the audio channels for both and apparently the merged file separated the left and right audio channels into two separate streams as opposed to using the single stream for both channels like the original.
Anyway to prevent it from doing this?
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So according to Adobe’s website: https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS2bacbdf8d487e582-73725e6a12e5a6165d0-7fff.html
At the very bottom they list limitations, one of which being “Merged clip audio results in mono track audio only.”
Which I was familiar with before posting this. It doesn’t seem however that the two tracks are mono it looks like they are two separate stereo tracks. If I mute one I still get audio in both speakers even though I muted the “right” track.
Here’s what they look like in the audio mixer
The original only has the left most track.
I guess the only thing to do is just deal with it or render out each clip uncompressed to have that single audio channel.
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Hi – did you ever find a solution to this problem?
It’s a time waster to have to keyframe two audio tracks instead of one.
Is there another way to deal with this problem?
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Okay – so I found a post saying I could go to the clip in the bin before it was on the timeline, right click and choose ‘none’ for one of the audio tracks. Now when I drag the clip onto the time line it has one track, which is a lot easier to edit and takes up less space.
When it comes to exporting will there be any quality loss?
I know a mono wav file will continue to be a mono wav file but does Premiere change anything when you remove the second track? It still plays on both left and right channels so I suppose it doesn’t change anything.
It would be nice to be able to merge clips and choose what kind of audio track you preferred.
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