More 4 channel audio for broadcast ?

[Walter Biscardi]

The best way to do is to export a full stereo mix from your timeline and then lay that onto Tracks 1 / 2 and assign those to outputs 1 and 2.

Then do an export of all elements for Audio Channel 3 and lay that onto Track 3.

Then do an export of all elements for Audio 4 and lay that onto Track 4.

You can’t assign one audio channel in FCP to multiple tracks of output. You have to create two audio mixes for your four tracks of output.

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[Dave Francombe]

thanks walter. How is the correct way to do the mix export ? Via quicktime conversion, send it out as a wav ?

[Travis Ballstadt]

I use Soundtrack Pro for this. It’s pretty quick and easy to send your sequence to STP, then create a bus for 1, 2, 3, and 4, I add a little compression to the busses to even up the levels a bit, and then route each bus to it’s own output.

Then I export Channel Grouped, which will give me 4 separate files for each channel.

Drop those onto your FCP timeline, route them to the proper output there, and print to tape.