Trying to split Audio to R & L Still not getting it.

[Andy Mees]

you might save yourself some trouble by getting rid of the whole stereo pair thing, and going to dual mono instead
if you go to your sequence settings, audio outputs tab you will notice a setting called “Grouping” for each audio pair, which can be set as stereo or dual mono
if you change your outputs to dual mono then you will be able assign your tracks to the individual outputs eg “A1” or “A2” instead of “1 & 2”

[Ed Stevens]

I thank you for your response but no dice. I have made the tracks dual mono. I right clicked at the auto preset and made the VO track1. I then made the music Track 2. They still are not split.
ED

[Mark Gringo]

if there is a way to do this, i’d love to know about it. i just finished doing an hour by hand in the audio mixer window… paning each audio clip L or R. not alot of fun.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Okay all, here’s the step by step.

Make sure the current timeline you want is open and active. Hit Apple-0. Select 2 channel output and then select dual mono (as opposed to stereo). Now, control click the track right by the autoselect button and select which output you want. In your case, Ed, you want a1&a2 to be set to 1, and a3-a6 to be set to 2. This will send channels a1 & a2 out to channel 1 of your deck or mixer, and the rest of the channels out to channel 2. Open the mixer in FCP (option-6) and toggle the button just above the master output, it looks like two speakers butting heads, or kissing, or whatever. That determines if FCP downmixes everything to stereo, or if it splits it to the assigned tracks. This downmix button will apply to monitoring AND to laying off to tape. If you want split tracks, you need to click this downmix button to hear and layoff correctly. This procedure also applies to 4 or more tracks of output.

Good luck and hope this helps.

Jeremy

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[Ed Stevens]

You get the prize. Thanks so much. It works. The key here was clicking the twin speakers above the master control. Thanks again. This is what makes this site so great. Full of great people.
ED

[Mark Gringo]

this is great to know! mucho thanks!!