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Balancing Audio in FCP
Hello there good people
I am fairly new to FCP and have been using Premiere for the last 6 or so years but finally decided to make the jump. I edit a lot of interviews in clubs and have one mono mike going into the left input. Normally in prem i duplicate the channel so i have in effect 2 left channels. I know this isnt ideal but its fine for our needs. In FCP i have tried usingh the pan but this also includes some of the right hand channel, so i get a lot of the noisy background music. Is there the same filter as in premiere where i can just duplicate the channel.
Many thanks in advance
Jamie
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4 Replies
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1. The “pan” will not include any right channel if you delete the right channel first.
(Highlight the audio clip, Modify (menu) > un-check “Stereo Pair”, delete the channel you don’t want).2. After you delete the right channel, you can then choose to duplicate the left channel and place it where the right channel “was” (if you’d like).
The “pan to center” is the more established pro way to do this but there are many proponents of the “duplicate and paste” technique.
(BTW, once you have un-checked the Stereo Pair, you don’t HAVE TO delete the right channel, you can just turn it down separately from the left channel, if you’d like.)
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Thanks mate for your help
is there any benefit of copy and pasting the good channel in to the other, or is it just as good to delete it and centre pan it.
Thanks again
jamie
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Thanks mate for your help
is there any benefit of copy and pasting the good channel in to the other, or is it just as good to delete it and centre pan it.
Thanks again
jamie
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[jamie] “is there any benefit of copy and pasting the good channel in to the other, or is it just as good to delete it and centre pan it.”
I’m of the school that says to “Pan-Center”.
It can create fewer problems as a project gets larger and harder to “keep straight”.
It is also the traditional “pro-audio” way to maintain tracks (many times a track is neither “FULL LEFT, FULL RIGHT, or FULL CENTER, but panned to a DEGREE one way or the other).Since the basics say, “2-channel “Stereo” tracks require two edit channels, and full-mono tracks only use a single channel”… it can be much easier to build and maintain a full mix if one keeps these kinds of things consistent.
Remember, a single track panned to center will need to have it’s LEVEL increased (by about 6 dB) to equal full mono output compared to “stereo” track levels.
The other end of this argument states that you can actually increase the LEVEL of a mono track if you “double-up” on two tracks, so if its a simple edit and you REMEMBER what you DID…
you can chose either method.
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