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Mute/Solo source tracks / change waveform size in timeline
New to Premiere. My source footage has four channels:
1-boom
2-lav
3 and 4-cam onboard micNow obviously when i edit the footage in, it’s easy enough to just edit in 1 or 2, and not 3 and 4, but it is a pain when previewing the raw with the producer to hear the onboard mic, or the boom and lav mixed together.
How can I mute or solo certain channels in the source window?
I’ve figured out how to vertically expand the waveform display in the source window’s waveform view, but how do I do that in the timeline (equivalent to Avid’s Command+Option K) so the peaks are more readable???
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On the left side of the timeline (the track header) you will find a speaker icon which you can turn on and off for each track (toggle track output)
When you hoover your mouse between two tracks in the track header the selection tool changes to two little horizontal lines. Press mouse and drag up or down.
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Yes but that only mutes media in the timeline. I am trying to mute / solo tracks on the source side before they go into the timeline.
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Yeah…
there is no EASY method for this that I know of….
You may be better off dropping this camera clips in a sequence…
mute what you don’t want to hear…
then split, select, copy and paste from the sequence to your edit….
Hope I’m wrong, but that’s what I think…
Alex Udell
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or set multi channel mono in the Preferences to mono (I think, not sure) before importing files.
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Alex, I tried changing prefferences and re-importing, and it didn’t make a difference. To be clear, the originals came in as mono, not stereo. So it’s not a setting issue, it’s a workflow issue.
I think it is just a lack in functionality, and am sad to hear no one has found an easy way to do this. Ann, I need to work in source because I am referencing TC numbers from a paper edit. Otherwise I’d just through all my raw into a timeline and start chopping it up. I will just live with it.
There’s a lot to love about Premiere, and it is quite powerful in terms of performance and workflow, but there’s so many BASIC interface functionalities that they seemed to have lost because they were too focused on the big picture. Avid, FCP, and other edit software you can solo/mute tracks at the source end before they get into the timeline with one click.
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YAYAYYYYY!!!! I jusr figured it out: To solo tracks from the source, in the lower right of the screen next to the timeline is a levels meter, and at the bottom of each track has an S for Solo. Clicking these while the source window is active solos tracks, so I can just listen to the Boom, or Lav, without hearing the two mixed together with the camera onboards. So there is a way to do this (as of CS6 at least).
Now to expanding the waveform, what I am looking is to alter the scale, so if the audio comes in quiet, I don’t have to drag the track super wide, I can change the scale so the peaks are more visible but keep track height the same. Avid users will know this as Command+Alt+K/L, there was no equivalent in FCP. I have noted you can expand the scale in the source window’s waveform view, which is helpful. But would be nice to do this in the timeline too,
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Hey Brian…
That’s a great find!
thanks for sharing!
Alex Udell
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To expand audio or video tracks in timeline, same as Ctrl+Alt K/L in Avid, Ann told you the tip in her first post of this thread, there´s no keyboard shortcut to do this like in Avid (at least i don´t know it) but it can be done by dragging with mouse the line between tracks in the left side ot timeline, just where the track names are.
Regards
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