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Can someone clear up the audio channels for FCP user?
As a FCP user learning Premiere, can someone clear up just how to use/map audio channels in Premiere CC?
Specifically, when I create a new timeline, how do I want to set up my audio tracks? Standard or Adaptive?
Do I also need to interpret my media in specific ways? The interpret audio channel dialog really makes no common sense to me.
I have some camera footage that has a left and a right. Premiere thinks it’s stereo I guess but it’s obviously a mic and nat sound. I want to edit them both into the timeline, but be able to delete the channel that isn’t needed if desired. But no matter whether I have standard or adaptive (not sure the difference) it acts the same. It puts both channels into a single track. I’m leaving audio interoperation as “use file.” Once in the sequence, I can open the effect controls and turn down a channel, but another annoyance, the key framing is on by default. Is there a preference somewhere to make sure audio key framing is off unless I actually make a keyframe? I couldn’t find it.
If I interpret as mono tracks, then it does get edited onto ch 1 and ch2, but both tracks are then panned left. ??
I know it doesn’t work like FCP legacy, and it looks like there’s a lot more options for audio, as soon as I can make sense of it all.
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That clears it up for the most part. It seems fine if all your audio is interpreted right, but what do you do when you’re handed hundreds of clips and it interprets them as stereo when some are just lav/boom or mic/nat, etc? Do you have to hunt them all down and batch interpret them or just interpret one by one? Seems like those are the only options. I know premiere audio is more powerful, but still not quite as user friendly as legacy for basic quick keyboard driven audio manipulation. But I’ll see if I can map some shortcuts for a few things.
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not hard to change something midstream – in timeline – control or right click on the audio….and then select audio channels – you can re-assign left and right to whatever side you want or make them duo mono –
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
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Say I had 4 tracks of audio originally on the camera. Tracks 2 and 4 were blank. So I patched 1 and 3 to go to 1 & 2 in the timeline. They’re both nat sound. Now that they’re in the timeline I’d like to adjust them together as a stereo clip. How would I do that? It’s a single button press of option+L in FCP Legacy. But I can’t see how to do it at all in Premiere.
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set it up in the Preferences: Audio – Default Audio Tracks – set Stereo Media to MONO. This will let Premiere import as FCP7 did.
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Well, it puts them on two tracks like FCP 7, but that is where the similarity ends. They can’t be adjusted together as a stereo clip (because they’re dual mono obviously) and you have to manually pan each track left and right respectively each time you edit a clip into the sequence.
It’s just a shortcoming that happened to pop up in this one particular instance. Not something to worry about day in and out. Just wanted to see if I was missing something. And the video from ReTooled earlier in the thread pretty covered all the options. Gotta like those guys videos.
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