Individual Adjustment of L & R Channels?

[Steve Connor]

Right click on the clip in the timeline and select “break apart clip items”

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Chris Lambert]

… Ah ok now I feel a bit stupid. I was trying to break apart a dual mono clip which I had already keyframed which is why it would not let me do this.

In future I’ll break apart first and then keyframe I do think apple should allow this option though, in case someone for whatever reason wanted to begin down one route and then changed their mind.

Thanks for stating what now feels like the obvious.

[Steve Connor]

Not entirely obvious, like many things in FCPX!

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Chris Lambert]

yup I’ll definitely give you that one. turns out my original question may still be valid after all though.

I was able to split the clip of the first instance of it appearing using “breaking apart clip items” and thus seeing both tracks, but on later versions of the same clip it does not appear selectable. Many of these I have not touched with either keyframes or even raising the db of the clip they remain in their original state.

My workflow for putting this on the time line was to lengthen my angle of the ceremony and then select the audio corresponding to that clip length back over the top and sync it manually (pretty time consuming but I found auto sync lead to echo)

[Chris Lambert]

think this is down again to another poor interface design by apple. despite changing the setting to dual mono. next to the clip name on the timeline it still states stereo.

Have tried restarting app, changing it back and forth still remains “stereo” and unable to split despite my best efforts.

[Andy Neil]

You can also open the clip in Timeline mode which will allow you to edit the individual audio tracks while keeping your keyframes in the main project intact.

Andy

https://www.timesavertutorials.com

[Jeffrey Carter]

The quick way:

Click on the clip (or press ‘c’ to select), in the audio section of the inspector select “dual mono” instead of “stereo.” If you just don’t want a track at all, you can deselect it. If you want to independently edit the audio tracks, right click the clip and select “open in timeline.”

You can now edit the tracks ala all other NLEs on the planet. (press command-[ to go back to the main timeline)

A nice quick edit feature:

Select range mode (press ‘r’), then highlight a section of audio that you want to raise or lower volume. In the middle of the clip you can drag the levels up or down and FCPX creates the appropriate keyframes. Or press delete to cut a gap.

You can manually add keyframes by option-clicking…

[David Battistella]

Is you sequence set to stereo or surround?

That may affect the stereo/dual mono clips. If it’s surround then you might want to switch it to stereo.

David

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[Chris Lambert]

Hi David I’d already changed the project preferences to stereo before this happened.

[Craig Seeman]

I think handling of dual channel mono (or more as some acquisition formats have more than two channels) is one of the major areas that need improvement.

The Timeline only displays a single waveform regardless whether mono, stereo, dual channel mono, etc. One is forced to look in the Inspector and that slows down editing decisions when this needs to be checked.

Expand Audio/Video behaves the same way when it should display the channels separately, in my opinion.

While Open in Timeline allows one to handle changing levels of one channel vs another, having to break apart the clip to edit the channels individual in a Timeline with other clips is awkward.

I’d like the Precision Editor to allow handling of dual channel mono audio independently rather than as one audio clip.