stereo –> dual mono in the bin

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Eric,
When you drag a stereo audio to the time-line you will find the Pan always to the left. Changing the Pan control have not effect at all. If you want to change the audio position you need to capture them as mono and pan by your self.

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..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[Steve Covello]

Try this – it used to work in 4.5 but I think it didn’t in later versions:

CTRL + Click on the clip and Make Offline, but DO NOT delete the media – “Leave it on the disk”. Just “disconnect” the media from the clip temporarily.

Once that’s done, select the clip and go into Modify pulldown menu, then Clip Settings, then change it from Stereo to Dual Mono.

Then Reconnect the media. It’s been a long time since I tried it, and I might be mistaken that it works Stereo –> Dual Mono rather than the other way around, but give it a shot.

Another “long stupid way” would be to go into Quicktime with the file, press CMD + J select audio settings, change “left” and “right” to “mono” or “center”. See what happens after you re-import.

Steve

Steve Covello
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[Matthew Griffin]

Steve’s process works — but I would love to hear a way to force audio imports to dual mono. This is going to be a long process for a feature doing all of these steps.

[Steve Covello]

Which process are you referring to? If it’s the “make offline” then clip modify, you can multi-select clips and do them all at once. The other methods, are “slow and stupid”, true.

steve

[Matthew Griffin]

I didn’t know that I could do “clip modify” on a number of tracks at once — thanks for the help!
Unfortunately, some of these tracks are coming in as 30fps instead of 25fps — these are ones that were in the project when I re-opened it in 6.0.3. I need to resync these anyway, so I’m going to just blow out these files from the project and see if that helps.

But if there were to be a secret setting for correcting the 30fps back to 25 fps I wouldn’t have greenbars on those audio clips in the first place!

matt

[Jacob Burghart]

the make offline way didn’t work for me in FCP 7

but i figured another way out.

make sure you don’t have in or out points set on any of your clips.
then select all and drag to a timeline.
then select all in the timeline and go to modify and select stereo pair, which should make it mono if it’s already stereo.
now click on one audio track and pan it to 0
then copy that track
select all in the timeline again
and paste attributes – pan.
now drag them all back to a new bin, that you can call dual mono or something.
it will take awhile to create master clips, but at least it’s doing all the time consuming stuff on it’s own.
and when it’s done you can delete the original master clips if you want.

Jake