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Separating Dialogue and Music
I have 18 tracks of audio in my 90 minute project and I need to deliver AB reels with dialogue in channel 1 and music/effects in channel 2. What is the quickest way to do this? I was hoping that I can just select the dialogue tracks (1-6) and change in pan values in the Audio Mixer but it doesn’t seem to work that way. Do I actually have to change the pan values of each clip by hand? I have tons of music and effects so I am hoping that is not the case. I’m using FCP 5.0.4 if that makes a difference.
Thanks in advance!
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Assuming you have only dialogue on certain tracks all the way thru and music on certain other tracks all the way thru and SFX of still OTHER tracks all the way thru…
Make a DUPLICATE of your timeline and on that dupe:
Use the “select all clips to the right” arrow tool to “select all clips to the right” on a specific track, then under the Modify menu, choose the “Pan Left” or Pan Right” and all the selected clips will do that at one time.
Continue for each track.
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Mute all tracks other than dialogue. File>>Export>>Audio as AIFF. You’ll then have one file that is only dialogue. Then, mute the dialogue tracks and unmute the music & effects tracks. Export those to an AIFF. Import both of these files into your Browser.
Start a new sequence and bring over a copy of your video only into this sequence. Drag in your dialogue to A1 and your M&E to A2. Double check to make sure it’s all synced up and lay it off.
When a project is completely done, I do this process in order to have a separate VO track, SOT (dialogue) track, music track, and effects track. Burn all these separate .aiff files to a data DVD so you have all your audio archived. Believe me, there are times when it really comes in handy to have done this.
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It’s always the really simple things that make me feeel stupid. 🙂
Thanks again!
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