Toggling mono audio to stereo?

[Brian Barkley]

A mono track will only take mono audio. Same with stereo.

You must open the file in Soundbooth and make the change there.

[James Culbertson]

I see. As a work-around is there a way to link two mono tracks together so that if I add a levels keyframe to one it automatically adds it to the other? In other words, I have a standard two audio channel video clip with the same audio on each channel, that Premiere thinks is two individual mono audio tracks. I’d like to not have to duplicate audio level keyframing efforts – and exporting to Audition seems like a lot of extra work, especially if I were have a hundred clips of this sort…

Thanks much,

James

[Ann Bens]

Select the mono track (or multiple mono clips) in the project window.
Go to Clip/Audio Options/Source Channel Mappings.
Select Mono as Stereo and then hit OK.
Now your mono track has become stereo.

[Sean Morris]

Hi James ~

Did you find a solution for this? As an ex-FCP editor myself, I find the way that PP works in this instance bizarre, doubling the work you need to do. The method Ann describes only works before you bring your clips in, and doesn’t work for any clip you’ve already put in the timeline. I just did a complex music edit, where I spliced parts of a song into a whole and have over 20 beat-timed cuts. This would mean I would have to delete that music, change the audio format, then bring the new file in and re-edit. A total time drain.

I know this thread is a bit old, but as a recent convert it’d be great to know if you ever figured a workaround.

Sean

[James Culbertson]

I do believe there was a way. But I was only experimenting with Premiere at the time, and have not touched it since them, so I cannot remember now what the solution was.

Sorry to not be of more help.