ARGHHH! The learning curve is killing me!

[Steve Courtney]

I just had the same problem yesterday, with one channel of hissy-camera-noise and one channel of good mic sound. Here’s what I did:

Select the audio tracks and go to the “modify” pull-down menu.
De-select “stereo pair” about halfway down.
Lock the V1 and A2 channels using the little lock icons in the timeline, and delete the A1 channel.

There might be a better way, but that worked for me. (And you can pan the audio to the center also under the “modify” menu, under the “audio” sub-menu.)

Good luck.

Steve
Foster City TV
http://www.fostercity.tv

[Michael Allen]

I am also switching from M100 as we speak. I just asked a very simalar question and this was my response. (M100 lets you do it in the “viewer”, FCP will not it seems)

Look at the timeline. At the left of each track you will see buttons that disconnect or reconnect the audio (or by dragging them around you can send one channel to a different channel). You can do this with the mouse or by holding down F7 and hitting 0 in the number pad, and then F8 and hitting 0 in the number pad.

If these buttons show the audio is disconnected then you can drag you clip and only the video will go. No audio.

In the same place (the left of the timeline) you will see the little padlocks. if you click on this to lock the audio then when you drag your clip to the timeline or canvas you will only get video no audio.

[Ed Dooley]

Or you can select the clip, do an Apple L which will de-link the audio and video (you’ll see that the underline below the clip name will disappear), delete the offending clip, and do another Apple-L to re-link the good audio and video.
Ed

[David Rowan]

If you have captured it as dual mono then, when you open it in the viewer, you will see a tab for each audio channel. Click the tab for the audio you want to kill. Take the red line and drag it down to the bottom. The audio will still be there, but it is “turned off”.

If you have captured it in stereo you could put the clip in a timeline, seperate the audio channels (modify and click “stereo pair”) and delete the bad audio channel.Then you can use that sequence as the clip you edit from, or you could even export it as a quicktime movie with its new, modified audio.

Or you can use Quicktime Pro to make a copy of it with dual mono audio. Thats kind of the hard way.

DWR

[Ed Dooley]

I should have added that this works if the clip is in the timeline.
Ed

[Bryan Keith]

many ways to do this. very easy and quick.

if the A1 and A2 are linked (indicated by small green triangles pointing at one another) simple select the audio and select OPT L on the keyboard. This unlinks the clips. You are now free to delete, pan, gain, do whatever you want with each individual audio channel.

It never hurts to read the manual. This is all clearly explained.

have fun

bryan

[Kevin Monahan]

1. Select the clip
2. Option + L breaks the stereo pair
3. Shift + Apple + A deslects the clip
4. Option click on the desired audio track to select it
5. Type the Delete button

Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com

[Michael Allen]

It would be helpful if this could be done before it hits the timeline (like we have done for years in M100.) The best suggestion that I have heard on this topic was to lock the audio track before dragging. That way when you drag it will “block” the audio from hitting the timeline. I will try this in a few minutes. When you have had control of this in the viewer window before dragging to the timeline, it is frustrating to have to use a sort of “workaround”. Not really a big deal, just something to get used too.

And thanks for the “read the manual suggestion” I always love those.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Why, it can be done before it hits the timeline. I am a former Media 100 editor, and let me tell ya… once, you get through the learning curve you won’t look back. When you are looking at the clip in the cavas, you will notice on the timeline that somwhere on the video and audio tracks there are links that determine where the video/audio should go. For instance, there should be a v1 link on the left (desingated with a small ‘v’) that is connected to whatever track is selected in the timeline (V1, V2, V3, etc. on the timeline). This same linking system applies on the audio tracks. For this example let’s say audio channel 1 is bad, and 2 is good. if your clip is in the viewer (get it in there by double clicking it) then you should see a v1, and an a1&a2 links on the left of the timeline track indicators (the ones with capital letters V1, A1, A2, etc). Drag the a2 link to the channel you want this audio to go in the timeline (let’s say channel A4). Simply, you are now assigning audio channel 2 from your clip to channel 4 of the timeline. Unlink audio channel 1 (the link between a1 and A1 will split). the left side of your timeline should look like this:

Now drag your clip from the viewer into the canvas to the overwrite overlay and edit the clip in your timeline. Once you et the hang of it, it’s much easier than Media 100. Also, this can be avoided if you now that your tape has two discreet audio channels before you capture. Open the log & capture window (Apple-8), click on the clip settings tab, and select A1+A2, or dual mono, or whatever you want (just a1 or a2 for that matter). Hope this helps.

Jeremy

[Tim Allison]

Jeremy,

Thanks for the encouragement. We are excited about switching to FCP. But right now, we are all frustrated by thoughts of, “Dang it! I know how to do this in Media 100. How do I do it in FCP?”

I am very confident that time and experience will greatly diminish these frustrating moments.