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Importing audio only clips into Premiere Pro 6
I am moving over from FCP to Premiere. I know in FCP when I Log and Transfer I can select Audio only to transfer my footage. I am doing a project now in Premiere where all I need is the audio. Is there a way to just import the audio, or just the video, in Premiere? I don’t see any way to do this since it imports everything.
Leonard F.
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5 Replies
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The most simple way is to palce the clip in your source monitor and set you in/out points for the portsion of the sound you want.
You will see little icons for the video (looks like a film frame) and the audio (looks like a waveform). Grab the audio icon with your left mouse button and drag it to the audio track you want it on. Done!
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Thanks for that tip. I didn’t know about it, being a newbie to Premiere. However, it assumes that you have already imported the media. So it doesn’t get to my original question–how do I import just the audio or just the video from the SD or P2 card, like I can do in Final Cut?
Leonard F.
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Well, first off, you should never import media from a camera card.
Transfer the files onto your computer first.File-import
that is how you import an audio file.
Is it with a video clip?
Open your media browser, bring in the footage, drop it all into a sequence, unlink and delete the video track. Or double click a movie file in the project and you can drag the audio only over to the sequence by grabbing the audio symbol.
Chris
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Yes, I do actually copy the media to my drive first. I guess I am not making myself clear. In FCP I can decide when I first Log and Transfer media whether or not I want audio and video, just audio or just video. I want to do the same thing in Premiere. If I know in advance I only want the audio portion of the video clip, then I want to be able to import just the audio alone to begin with, no video at all. I can do it FCP. How do I do it in Premiere?
Leonard F.
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Inside PPro you can set any number of clips by selecting them in the Project Bin right clicking, Modify, Audio and set number of channels to 0. Only the video is added when used, but you can change the number of channels to bring the audio back if need be.
As for logging/transferring/importing audio and not video you can do this in Prelude. Select clips and ingest/transcode to .wav or .aac or whatever.
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