Working with Audio Channels

[Mark Morache]

Grant… you gotta give us some more information about the format.

I edit four channel source audio as well, and I always try to do that without breaking the audio apart from the video, unless I absolutely must.

FIrst, turn off the tracks you don’t want on. Do that either in the audio inspector, or by opening up the clip in timeline mode and using V to disable the channels.

Now from here, if I want to ride the levels of multiple channels, I use the open in timeline option, and inside the clip, I ride the levels, then close it back up.

There are other ways to do this. If you are recording a concert, or something that won’t need many cuts, you can break apart the audio, and then place all of channel 1 with the board in a giant compound clip that you can see in the timeline and ride up and down with keyframes. Likewise for channels 2, 3 and 4.

The fact that the audio is unsupported is a problem. That’s why we need more information.

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Mark Morache
FCPX/FCP7/Xpri/Avid
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com

[Trevor Asquerthian]

Not sure I can help.. but I have seen this behaviour with my testing with an 8 channel Quicktime clip.

It ‘auto-detects’ the clip as 3 stereo and 2 mono. I can change it to 8 mono or 4 stereo etc, but not manually assign stereo pairs and mono tracks. Also there is no routing for the individual tracks as I see without breaking apart.

Once broken apart I see the ‘unsupported clip’ error message in the channel configuration. This seems to indicate that you can’t configure the channels in an audio clip that is from within a VandA clip.

I can, however, then assign panning to those 8 seperated tracks and then combine them all back in a compound clip – which could all work but seems like a lot of effort at the moment.

I think I can only then adjust the panning by breaking the compound clip apart again… but maybe that’s a good thing.

[Glenn Grant]

Thanks Mark, the “open in timeline” was what I was missing.

Now as far as riding the levels, what are the options for doing that? All I can figure out is how to adjust the entire track or use the range tool to select an area. Is there an easier way to bring down a track at a certain point, have it stay there and then bring it back up when I need it.

Cheers,
Glenn

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[Glenn Grant]

I figured out I can do it in the inspector window. It sure seems like there would be a more efficient way of doing it.

Cheers.

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[Mark Morache]

Make your audio tracks larger using the clip appearance window, under the right part of the timeline.

Option-click to add keyframes. Click and drag to move them up/down/left/right. Select one and cmd+ or cmd- to raise/lower it.

Use the range tool to elevate/reduce a range.

Read the manual man.

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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.

Mark Morache
FCPX/FCP7/Xpri/Avid
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com

[Glenn Grant]

Thanks Mark, I appreciate your help.

I have been reading the manual, though not cover to cover. And I have a gone through two of Ripple Training’s series. There is a lot of new and different stuff and some of it takes a lot to sink in.

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