FCP5 – export mono aif files

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Just choose:

File (menu) > Export > Using QuickTime Conversion…
> Format: > AIFF Options: > 48 kHz, 16 bit, MONO.

OR-
Duplicate your timeline.
On the dupe select ALL of the audio clips you want to export.

Modify (menu) > Audio > Pan Center.

Export that timeline which is now already mono.
It won’t matter if you choose “Stereo” or “Channel grouped” as all tracks will be on both channels.

BUT-
I don’t see how your composer would have any trouble at all using a “stereo” dialog track as a reference, anyway.

[Daryl K davis]

Yeah, I figured it out. I was using the export “audio to aiff” setting but figured out the export via Quicktime setting. Thanks.

The composer wants a VHS tape with burn and dialogue CH1 and Timecode on CH2. Thats why I had to mono the output of the stereo dialogue tracks. I know it may seem old-fashioned but there are still lots of people using their old OS9 Pro-tools systems with chase-lock to a VHS deck.

Even stranger, I had to dub off a 3/4″ for an out-of-town ADR session the other day!!! The dubbing house I use junked their 3/4″ about 6 months ago. I didn’t even know where I could buy a blank tape, but I found an old tape in a storage box and borrowed an old BVU-800 that a friend had stored in an attic. Wow did that bring back some old memories. Chilling.

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[DKD] “The dubbing house I use junked their 3/4″ about 6 months ago. I didn’t even know where I could buy a blank tape, but I found an old tape in a storage box and borrowed an old BVU-800 that a friend had stored in an attic. Wow did that bring back some old memories. Chilling.”

I have 3 Umatic “boat anchor” decks in my basement.
But I still have stacks of old 3/4″ archive tapes.
Who has the time to DUB ’em all?

Hours of one-inch reels, too!
One-inch decks can be found on ebay for a couple of hundred dollars each… but the SHIPPING will kill you.