can’t monitor more than 2 tracks?

[Angelo Lorenzo]

You’re able to hear as many audio tracks as you have, the final mix buss for the sequence is just in stereo.

If you, say, want 5.1 monitoring and have the hardware to monitor it properly then you would set:

Number of audio tracks: 1
Channel format: 5.1

If you need an arbitrary number of channels and, again, have the hardware to monitor such as discrete channels (or need channels for broadcast output)

Number of audio tracks: 8 (example)
Channel Format: Mono

You may need to go to preferences > Audio hardware and adjust/assign settings as needed.

You cannot mix channel formats (have a track of stereo with a track of 5.1). You would have to mux your delivered file after the fact in something like FFMPEG or Squeeze or another broadcast encoder.

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[Paul Dougherty]

Thanks Angelo,

I will not be in front of the system for a few days to act on your advise but I appreciate it

Best,

Paul