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Should I be using multiple mics to record dialogue and sound effects?
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Okay thanks. I am 34, and haven’t heard of quadrophonic. So are you saying that for a typical surround sound mix, the music is in the two front center channels only pretty much?
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Ryan,
Exactly, unless it’s part of the production sound, like a radio on in the next room or a marching band on a football field.
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Oh okay, if I want the music to be on the two center channels, should I ask for a stereo mix, or is this a no no, because then I won’t be able to break each stereo channel apart to put one on one center channel, and one on other? Should I ask for both channel tracks separately therefore?
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Ryan,
Get your names right. There is only ONE center channel.
The other two in the front are Left and Right. A regular stereo mix will be fine.
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Ty Ford
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Okay thanks, but when you import a stereo track into Premiere Pro, the track cannot be broken apart, so how do I get the right tracks on the right channels then, if a stereo mix track cannot be broken apart?
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Ryan, the mix you’ll get will be two channels, left and right.
You just need to import it. That’s all.
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Ty Ford
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Okay thanks, but how do you make sure that the stereo music mix will be on the right channels during exporting though? If I can’t break it apart, then how do I control which channels it goes onto?
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That depends on:
1) How the music is delivered to you? (a) As a combined “stereo” track with embedded Left and Right, or (b) As two separate tracks, Music Left and Music Right.
2) What video editing software you are using. Different software works differently so since we don’t know what you are using, we can’t suggest how it might be done.Perhaps you can send a stereo track directly to Front Left and Front Right? Dunno. Does your software allow that?
Or perhaps you will need to split a stereo track into independent Music Left and Music Right tracks?And perhaps you might also need to convert the sample rate. As most pure music production is done at 44.1K samples/sec while video production is essentially standardized on 48K samples/sec. Sometimes the (unidentified) video editing software does this for you, and sometimes you have to do it for yourself. Too many variables to get very specific.
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Sorry, I am using Premiere Pro. I will ask the music performer to give me 48 khz, but I don’t think Premiere Pro, is ablet to put a stereo track into separate channels. If a track comes in at stereo, then it stays it’s own separate channel, on it’s own and cannot be put into two then.
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I used to use Premiere. I could take a stereo track and mute one side.
So you can take two copies of a stereo track, mute Right on the “Left” track,
and mute Left on the “Right” track. Than pan each to the appropriate channel.
I have also split stereo tracks into discrete Left and Right using other methods.
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Recording audio without metering and monitoring is exactly like framing and focusing without looking at the viewfinder.
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