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Using only 1 channel of stereo audio
I have a bunch of AVCHD interviews clips imported into a new project where the cameraman used the left channel for a lav and the right channel for a boom mic. When these clips are imported into the project, Premiere regards them as stereo clips, so if I only want only the lav sound, I have to highlight the clip, go into the Clip menu and use the Breakout to Mono Audio Option to separate the channels and then edit the video and audio separately into the Timeline. Which seems like an extremely cumbersome way of doing this. Is there a command in Premiere Pro akin to FCP’s “Unlink Stereo Pair” option where you can just separate the channels either at the Clip level or the Timeline Level without having to turn 1 clip into 3 that you need to edit separately?
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4 Replies
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In the Browser BEFORE you drag clips into a sequence, “control” click on the clips and select the audio option. There you can change to mono.
Then you’ll have left right split.Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
What a difference the “control” click mix. I understood that if I set my Preferences for the project as Mono, I could import the clips as having mono audio. But I wanted a way to do it after importing and that was what stumped me. Thanks for the help.
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Just use the FILL LEFT or FILL RIGHT audio effect, dropped directly onto clip on timeline. If you need to switch back and forth between left and right channels, put razor cuts at those points and apply appropriate fill effect to each part of audio clip, use quick audio crossfade between to eliminate any audio jump.
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers -
Much easier way:
Clip Menu> Audio Options > Breakout to Mono.
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