Split Track Audio???

[Tom Matthies]

Bring in your footage with Log & Capture audio set to “Ch1 + Ch2”, edit to timeline as usual. Make sure you don’t pan your audio tracks to center. Leave them panned left & right. Output back to tape as usual.
This is assuming that you can feed to split track from the Beta to whatever you use for input to your computer. You should be able to go right inyto your DeckLink card. If you go thru a mixer, make sure that your channels are discreet and not mixed together
Tom

[Rob Forsythe]

[Tom Matthies] “Bring in your footage with Log & Capture audio set to “Ch1 + Ch2″, edit to timeline as usual. Make sure you don’t pan your audio tracks to center. Leave them panned left & right. Output back to tape as usual.”

Well, Tom, that’s ALMOST correct. 😉

If you want to leave the audio SPLIT (without making further pan adjustments)
you should set the Audio Capture to “Stereo”.

That will capture the two audio tracks separately and “leave” them panned far Left and far Right (“split”) on the FCP timeline.

If you set the Audio Capture to “Ch1 + Ch2” that will capture them separately but automatically pan both tracks full CENTER (mono).
You’d NEED to manually pan them to Left & Right during the edit.

A small but important distinction.

[Tom Matthies]

Oops! My bad.
🙁
Tom