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This audio is killing me
Just returned from Africa with 50 hours of a doc to digitize but my audio has a mind of its own.
I recorded separate mono channels (1 lav and 1 boom) which I can play back in my DVCPro deck and monitor through Cinewave balanced analog OUTS but when I capture each clip using Ch1 & Ch2 settings FCP reports them as 2 separate mono channels but actually makes each channel a mono mix of the two. In the Browser it still logs them as Ch1 & Ch2 and NOT as mono mix.
Driving myself nuts re-setting my prefs and all settings but to no avail.
Can anyone help?
Running G4 dual 1.25; OS X 10.3.6; FCP HD 4.5; Cinewave 4.7
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FCP always mixes the audio to center when you drop it to the timeline. Just pan the channels left and right and you’re all set.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Thanks Walter. I have just discovered I have separate distinct audio on each channel in the timeline by switching channels on and off so the clips must have captured correctly.
But in my Browser in each audio tab Mono(a1) and Mono (a2) I hear identical mono mixes of both channels that are unaffected by the panning control in the Browser.
So still scratching my head.
Cheers
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Make sure your audio isn’t getting mixed somewhere preceeding your monitor speakers. Have a look at the waveforms. They’ll likely look different for Ch1 and Ch2. If so, you have a monitoring problem.
BTW, I really wish there were an option that would allow one to capture mono with audio panned left/right instead of centered or at least a way to pan the monitoring without adjusting the clips.
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[Dave LaRonde] “There is: capture it as stereo audio. Right channel… left channel… life is good.”
The problem is the two channels are then linked. Of course you can unlink them but that gets back to the problem for me. Too many steps to do. Too easy to make a mistake and miss a file. I’d want panned mono files OR pan the monitoring without touching the center panned mono files.
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Thanks for this. I finally discovered that by creating a dual mono default setting in Sequence settings I am now able to hear distinct channels in the Viewer. Does the Viewer reflect and behave as the Timeline settings? I had assumed it had nothing to do with the Timeline but with the Browser.
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