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What is the difference between plain and matrix audio?
I shoot in 1080p AVCHD with an HMC-150. When I import audio, my choices are either plain stereo or matrix. What is the difference between the two exactly? I’ve looked online but not really found an answer to the question.
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Not sure about that camera specifically but generally matrix means multiple channels of audio embedded in a single data stream. This is how Dolby ac3 files are and many others like DTS Mpeg2 etc.
FCP can only work properly with uncompressed PCM 16 or 24 bit @ 48khz. I suggest you select stereo and see what the files are when converted into quicktimes in a codec that FCP can use.
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