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Problem: Audio output mixed to stereo – shouldn’t be
Weird problem – all channels from our sequences are mixed together as a stereo output and we can’t change it!
What we want to output is 3 separate audio channels.
We’ve been using an audio preset with 4 output channels. Channels 1 and 2 are a stereo mix. Channels 3 and 4 are mono outputs. The preset worked fine until last week but now FinalCut seems to be ignoring it.
This happened after we changed the “View, Audio Playback” settings to “Built In Output” to listen to Final Cut audio through headphones plugged into the front of the MacPro. We changed this setting back to “Audio Follows Video” so that the audio is routed to our Kona3. Sound does come from the Kona3 but it’s the 3 tracks mixed.
Here’s what we should have on our outputs. Channels 1 and 2 should be a stereo mix of 8 tracks from our sequence. These are assigned properly in the sequence to outputs 1 and 2.
Channel 3 is the output from timecode audio on track 9 in our sequence. Track 9 is properly assigned to output 3.
What we actually get is all 3 tracks mixed together.
Any ideas?
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2 Replies
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Trashing preferences fixed it. In case you read this later and want to know how to trash your preferences, here you go:
https://support.apple.com/kb/TS1846
Delete the User Preferences
You can resolve many issues by restoring Final Cut Pro back to its original settings. This will not impact your project files, but you should verify your Scratch Disk location setting after doing this. To reset your Final Cut Pro user preference settings to their original state, do the following:
1. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences—the tilde (~) represents your Home folder.
2. Remove the “com.apple.finalcutpro.plist” file from the Preferences folder.
3. Remove the “Final Cut Pro User Data” folder from the Preferences folder. -
Better yet, use the free toll from Digital Rebellion –
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/pref_man.htm
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