Batch unpair audio?

[Steven Gonzales]

I’m not sure of the term “unpair” but Final Cut links audio together, and also has another type of link which is stereo pair.

You can use “command A” to select all your audio, and then “command L” to unlink it, and if necessary “option L” to disconnect a stereo pair.

If you want to just deal with the tracks seperately but keep them linked, you can turn of linked selections.

Reading about linking and linked selections in the manual would be a good help.

Steve

[Arturo Glass]

That was what I want to do – disconnect the stereo pair in the entire sequence. Is there a quick way of doing this or do I need to go clip by clip?

[Steven Gonzales]

I’m not near final cut right now, but can’t you select all of the clips and unlink them at once?

If not, maybe drag the clips to a new bin, select all, alter the audio column to convert all from stereo pair, and drag them back?

This is all guessing from memory, because I’m not near a machine with final cut. I’m sure someone else might have a more efficient idea.

[Andrew Commiskey]

Select your audio tracks, hit option-L to remove stereo pair setting, right click on audio tracks and go to remove attributes, here you can remove the L-R panning by checking the pan attribute, -be careful- and make sure you only check what you want to remove.

Best,
Drew

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[Ben Scott]

i do this all the time

select the clips you need on timeline

modify > turn off stereo pair (tick)

like they said above watch for linking of audio and video and the panning

however make sure you must not select music or other tracks which are meant to be in stereo as these will toggle to the opposite e.g. mono 2 channel

same goes for making footage which wasnt captured in stereo mix as stereo (this is more what I end up with)

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