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XDCAM.MOV only bringing in 1 channel of audio
I’ve got a .mov quicktime that is the xdcam codec. It imports fine into final cut with 6 layers of audio. When I try it in premiere, only one channel comes it and will not play.
The file does not open in the new quicktime but opens fine in quicktime 7.
I know i could throw it in compressor and spit out a pro-res file BUT the clip is two hours long, and this format is coming from a client so I know that I will see more of this problem in the near future.
I thought it might be codec related but since premiere comes with xdcam preloaded, not sure if i really need to try to install them – I’ve looked on their site and can’t find an installed to the xdcam codec. I did try installing the browser, hoping the codecs would be with it, but no love there.
also to clarify, FCP is on a different machine from Premiere.
I’m running the most updated version of cs5.5does anyone have any suggestions?
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Make sure in your preferences that you have it set up for the number of audio files you have and what tracks you want them to go to. I use XDCam all the time and had to set up a specific audio import setting preference so that the tracks are always split to mono for individual editing.
Hope that helps.
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Hey Wendell,
Can you be a bit more specific to where that preference is?
I check preferences through Premiere Pro>preferences and I don’t see anything about audio importing on any of the tabs. I did however get it to admit to me that there were 6 channels of audio by going to file>get properties for…>file and it tells me that there are in fact 6 channels.
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Mac or Windows… little different. Mac under Premiere Pro > Preferences, Windows under Project down the bottom > Preferences.
For a single file you can modify it. Right click on the file and up comes a dialog box. chose 6th down Modify. Then you can set up the audio anyway you want. It is also under Clip.
I actually made my own preferences for the way I work so all files come in split track mono. With 6 audio layers you will have to do some work.
There are a bunch – 36+ videos on the new CS6 PrP in the tutorials. I just changed over and have been watching them in my hotel each night. I believe the guys name is Devis. Real nice job. I’ve watched some of them a number of times. There is a good one specifically on this subject – couldn’t my finger on it at the moment.
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Sadly that did not work. It only sees 1 track of audio when doing it that way. I’ve got adobe on the phone now about it. So far no luck either. 🙁
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Trent,
Sorry, no answers, but see my thread here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/923696#926141
There is something VERY strange about how PPro imports audio (in my case, 4 mono channels coming from my XDCAM EX camera. Basically, in any environment except using Sony XDCAM Browser for import, you’re screwed. If you attempt any copy/paste functions of the BPAV folder (in may case), you can kiss all of your audio goodbye except for one channel. Nobody is saying if this is a PPro or a Sony issue.
Dave
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I’ve recently upgraded/transfered to CS6 and since I also shoot w/ EX1R I wanted to check if I was encountering the same audio issues — Yes and No. If I bring in the file from the media browser to the time-line I get one audio track. If I bring the file into the Project folder and (rt click)modify audio to 2 tracks (mono) I get both audio tracks. Let me know if that works for you, or I was just lucky:-)
Cheers,
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