insert/overlay onto multiple audio tracks

[Jon Barrie]

Avid & FCP work with dedicated mono tracks that 2 mono L+R = stereo.
PPro uses whatever the source is. If its stereo you will get a stereo track as one track which can be panned etc inside the one source track. If it’s mono/5.1 thats the track you will work with when you overlay/insert.
If you want to dedicate a L and R channel I do it with two stereo audio tracks.

Process:
1. Target the 1st track then overlay.
2. Move CTI to begining,
3. target 2nd track,
4. copy the audio clip in track 1,
5. paste it – the paste will go where you target (track 2) and start at the CTI/playhead.
6. Rename the tracks so I know it’s actual dedication L or R (IVer or IVee).
7. Using the Audio Mixer I hard L or R pan the respective tracks (the names show up in the mixer).
“pan and other effects (bass, etc) you might have in the mixer apply to the whole track”.
Then I’m ready to go.

Hope that helps – its a different way to approach it, but once you get used to it it’s very efficient for keeping track of which clip does what.
– Jon 🙂

[Tom Whitaker]

Thanks! This will work, I guess it is a couple of extra steps I will get used to. I need to keep channel one and two seperate for archiving purposes so I can use the nat sound on ch2 for future use.

Thanks again,
Tom

[Jon Barrie]

You could split the audio into mono files by selecting the clip, goto clip>audio options> …
But that makes more mess than it’s worth.
– Jon

[Tom Whitaker]

Thanks Jon, I tried splitting the audio into mono and it seemed like way more work and trouble then just cutting and pasting…thanks again!

[Ross Bradshaw]

Hello all

Another way of doing this is using your Fill Left and Right audio effects in the effects panel. You get much the same results but you can copy the effect from the first clip and paste it onto the rest of your clips. If the Nat is on the left channel then use thew FIll Left Effect abnd then the Fill Right effect on Channel 2

Take it easy men

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