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Audio
I’ve been charged with training photographers at my station on FCP X. We do quick turn around news and I was looking for a simple way to adjust levels and panning in one swoop. Usually I will put my reporters audio track and interviews on my primary storyline. Then I connect all of my b-roll clips. I highlight my all of my clips on the primary storyline, go to inspector, pan to the left and then uncheck all channels except for the first one(main mic). On the connected clips I do the same except I pan to the right and uncheck all audio except for the second one. Sometimes by doing this the volume control will be grayed out. Also my audio level comes down quite a bit. I do this to have that good Channel 1 and 2 audio mix. I could just go and individually adjust audio but this is run and a gun broadcast news so trying to find the quickest way to help our guys out.
Derrick Robinson
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I know why you are doing a ch 1&2 split… but WHY are you STILL doing a ch1 & 2 Split?
I assume this is for archiving and retrieval purposes. What are you archiving to and can you do a 4 channel mix?
2 Channel split is so 1980’s.
Brian Mulligan
Senior Editor – Autodesk Smoke
WTHR-TV Indianapolis,IN, USA
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Thanks for responding Brian. We save our video to a grass valley server. We do split channels because that how they want it to come through our ignite server in our control room. They also want it split for archival and retrieval purposes. We share a lot of video with the network as well as cnn and univision and they wan the audio split.
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You can use Roles for this if you’d like.
If you know the audio assignments, you can do this before you even start editing if your clips have the same number of audio channels.
Set the Role, set the audio level and set the channel assignments by selecting the appropriate clips in the Event and open the inspector and click the audio tab.
Export the QT with “Roles as Multichannel QT”.
if you clips have differing numbers of audio channels to begin with, you will have to select a group that has the same number of audio channels to perform group modifications.
Jeremy
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I haven’t got to Roles yet….is there no end to this learning curve?
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