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Breakout to mono in 1.5?
I made a stereo recording of a meeting where speakers are alternately speaking into either one or the other mike. And that’s the way of course is the way it looks in the Timeline when captured into 1.5.
I found the breakout to mono tracks function in 1.5 now the question is how to alternately turn on and off these sections of the mono tracks as in effect one mike records then the other records.
Of course both mikes are on for the whole recording and when the speaker is speaking in one mike extraneous sound is coming onto the other track, so the goal is to shut off the mike where the speaker is not speaking.
I was not using a mixer. I did a hard wire split into the stereo mike input in my camcorder. It worked fine as far as it went and I thought the configuration somewhat ingenious if not elegant.
It’s a patch quilt pattern.
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Click one of the icons at the left end of each audio track and choose Clip Volume. Use the Pen tool and the Ctrl key to create nodes or keyframes on the yellow vulume rubberband on each track. Then the Pen tool to drag a node down to 0 db.
Warning…dont accidently go above 100%…can cause nasty sounds only noticable by the client on the finished DVD. (sounds Ok from the timeline) -
I would not break out to mono.
Try this:
Put one copy of the stereo track on A1 and another on A2. Make sure they are both snapped to the same start point. Maybe A1 is actually the audio synched to V1 then you can either drag the file to V2/A2 or if you know how to do it, select only the audio in the clip window and drag it down to the timeline.
Next drop the Fill Left on A1 and Fill Right on A2. This will make it so that A1 is really a mono clip of just the left track and A2 is a mono clip of the right track. It should play back fine from there. You can now just chop out the parts of each track and leave the checkerboard. Depending on the audio, there may be gliches at the cuts, so you might have to fade out, but again, stay away from the keyframes, just put audio crossfades on them (the default audio transition [which is a crossfade] shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+D) but you might not need them.
You can cut them with the razor tool (just lock the tracks you don’t want to cut) or just put the CTI at the time you want and hit Ctrl+K instead of switching to the razor blade.
Tell me if you need clarification.
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