Can’t move audio clips to a different audio track

[Elizabeth Jarosz]

Eddie – I’ve been to this link 3 times today and I can’t find anything that answers my question. Can you please post the answer here? it’s not in the help materials you’re pointing to. Thanks.

[Eddie Lotter]

See: FAQ:Why won’t my audio clip go to the track I want it to?

Cheers
Eddie

[Alex Udell]

Hi there….

I’ll take a guess that there is mismatch between the Type of audio you have and the type of track you want to mve it to.

PPro can have Mono audio tracks (one speaker icon)
and stereo audio tracks (2 speaker icon …looks like a bow tie)

My guess is that you have a stereo clip you are trying to move to a mono track.

You’ll need to add more mono tracks using the Add Tracks Dialog to create and position the tracks on the timeline the way that you want.

Once you do that you shuold be able to move the audio between the same types of audio tracks without difficulty.

hope that helps…

Alex

[Eddie Lotter]

If you are trying to put a mono clip in a mono track and it won’t go there then you need to provide more details for us to try and help.

If, however, you are trying to put a mono clip into a stereo track then the very first bullet point, in the link I provided, did indeed answer your question. 😉

Cheers
Eddie

[Richard Gilbert]

Elizabeth,

I am having the exact same problem! Did you ever find a solution?

What happens to me is:

(1) I drag a video clip onto the timeline, onto the V1 track. The audio, predictably, ends up on the A1 track.

(2) But then, when I drag another clip, onto the V2 track, the audio, curiously, ALSO ends up on the A1 track, overlapping — and deleting — my existing audio!

Shouldn’t it go to the A2 track, thereby corresponding with the video track?

Richard

[Elizabeth Jarosz]

Hi Richard,

Yes, you are having exactly the same problem I had.

Here’s what I did that worked…

– I kept video and audio in the V1/Audio 1 track.
– I deleted all other Audio tracks
– I added a new Audio track

Then, when I put the next clip into V2, the corresponding audio went to A2 as well..

Hopefully that will work for you too.

Good luck.
Elizabeth

[Carli Drayson]

Your audio is going into track one because that track is most likely selected. Simply highlight track two before you insert your next clip and it should put it there. The tracks don’t necessarily correspond with each other, it simply depends on what tracks are highlighted. For example if you have an audio/video clip and the video track 3 is selected by audio track 5 is selected, the video will show on the 3rd video track and the audio on the 5th audio track.

The only other thing to watch for, as has been mentioned is whether you are trying to put a mono clip in a stereo track. If it is a stereo track it will have two little stereo speakers in the track heading, and mono will have one. If you need more mono tracks simply add them.

[Richard Chin]

I think if anyone using Premiere for some time say they haven’t encountered this problem, they’re lying to themselves. I could only hope they designed something better in CS5 but i doubt it. Why could’nt it be like FCP … I just put my audio where I want, the program works out the maths of whether its stereo, mono, 41khz, 48khz, wav, aif or what ever.

[Mark Lowley]

Hi, realise this reply is about a year late but its helpful for anyone in the future who has this problem, all you have to do is resave the file format as a WMA and you can paste the sound anywhere you want. This problem drove me crazy until i actually used my brain and worked out the answer!

[Dirrk Muas]

IM HAVING THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM!!!

I need a nice break down of what to do so I can edit multi vids too…

Can you assist me some time?

Whats your email?