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Premiere Pro CS5 keeps detecting audio as 5.1 when it’s not.
Hi, I have this problem with a variety of different files. Not just one set of files, that are encoded through various methods and have different sources. I have Premiere CS3 and CS5 both installed on my computer.
When I import certain files (whether they have mono audio or stereo audio) they get detected as having 5.1 audio and CS5 automatically creates a separate audio track for them. I don’t know what’s causing this to happen. If I import the same files into CS3, it detects them properly and places them on a mono or stereo track.
If I create a project in CS3, import the files (which get recognized properly) and then open it in CS5, then CS5 detects it as the proper audio (mono or stereo) it’s supposed to be. Can anyone help me so I don’t have to perform this extra step every single time I want to have an audio track be recognized properly.
I’ve gotten to the point where my setup is just right with CS5, that I don’t need CS3 anymore for anything except for this step now. It would suck needing to keep this installed just because CS5 can’t recognize the audio tracks in video files properly.
Edit: To even go further in detail, if I expand the audio track to see the waveforms in CS5, it does show just the left track having a waveform if the audio is mono, or both the left and right track if the audio is stereo, so it’s not even like it artificially increases the amount of waveforms either.
Breaking the tracks out to mono results in one breakout file for mono and two breakout files for stereo. So yeah, even though it does detect there is maybe only one active track in the “5.1 audio” of the video, it still gets placed on the 5.1 audio track.
My Sequence/project settings are either mono or stereo depending on the files I’m working with. I don’t have 5.1 in any of my settings.
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Go to the preferences> Audio. You have the audio set as 5.1. Set it to mono should do the trick.
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