[Fabrice Ducouret]

I’ve found that if you’ve started editing already and realize that you’re only hearing mono sound on the left or right, there’s a simple workaround that doesn’t require you to restart editing your project from scratch:

1 – Right-click your edited shot in the Timeline

2 – Click “Audio Channels” in the dropdown

3 – In the “Audio Channels” Tab that opens, look under “Media Source Channel”. If your footage only has Left channel audio, tick the two boxes under “L”. If your footage only has Right channel audio, check the two boxes under “R”.

If the result is silence, you have selected the wrong channel. If the result is working, you have duplicated the channel with sound to the other one.

[Fabrice Ducouret]

None of the answers I see here seemed to work for me so I thought I’d add the solution that worked for me in Premiere Pro CC 2018:

1-When your files are in the Media Browser, sort them by Name using the Name column*.

2-At the bottom of the Media Browser, click “Automate to Sequence” – it looks like this:

A window with options pops us. Select the ordering, placement and method that you want.

[Fabrice Ducouret]

Hey Joe!

Thank you so much for your great answer.

I ditched FCP7 and used Premiere for my project. It worked great.

But I couldn’t get premiere to read the EXIF data from the AVCHD files… no matter how I tried 🙁 🙁
As you can see in my capture from my previous post, some files have a creation / modification date in FCP7 but not in Premiere (for example 0012.MTS).

I was wondering; maybe I should just use “NameChanger” for Mac to rename the file to its creation date?
For example 2015-03-15-14-27.mp4?
This way I could organise them by name instead of by date created and have them in the order?
I’ll do it if it’s the only way… (see below)

Maybe I should start another topic about this?

Any help appreciated anyways 🙂

[Fabrice Ducouret]

I am trying it in Premiere Pro – it seems just as simple to use as FCP7 and deals much better with AVCHD files (although FCP7 sometimes works without crashing with these files, it’s quite irregular).

The problem I encountered was that the files browser in Premiere Pro couldn’t read the date EXIF data of the shots the way FCP7 did (to sort them out by date).

Do you know this problem? Here is a screen grab of both files browsers, FCP7 and Premiere Pro, Premiere Pro not showing any “date created/modified” data:

[Fabrice Ducouret]

Thanks Shane, I’ll try and see what this does in FCPX.
How would I “optimize” the files? Could MPEG Streamclip do it?
I’m just trying to do the cutting before I send everything into AE…

Or maybe I can just work on Premiere Pro from now on, I’m not too familiar with it but I assume it does ripple delete 😉

[Fabrice Ducouret]

If you only knew sometimes how much I want to go back to shooting 16mm and Super-! 😉
And editing them of course…

[Fabrice Ducouret]

Thanks for your help ben. I tried what you said but it was unsuccessful again.
I gave up on the idea of having a composition all in 3D, I think I will just export each missile as a different 2D layer after I animate it in After, and then key them out into the 3D composition.

[Fabrice Ducouret]

Thanks a lot Ben, I’m excited that I might soon be finding out, after months of being stuck, why this isn’t working… I did what you suggested, and placed all the cameras at the same position. The attached image is what the 4 views show, but I can’t understand why the missing 3D layer isn’t showing, still… Could it be a layer or a layer controller hiding it?
screenshot2012-01-07at22.32.41pm.jpg

[Fabrice Ducouret]

Thanks for your advice! It worked really well…
Now i would like to attach a 3D object to the emitters of these paths, which would move along and adjust in angle / perspective. Can this be done? Can i export the 3D object from photoshop, and if so how?

[Fabrice Ducouret]

Hello Olin

Thank you very much for your kind response.
All the nice answers I have gotten here make me feel like I have a lot to learn about AE to even begin to explain what I want to do precisely…
In the first shot, there are missiles coming out of a moving point, and the camera is panning to the left to accompany the missiles.
In another shot, they are coming towards the camera while the camera zooms back.
I think this effect is not too difficult to accomplish for someone who knows their way in Particular and AE, and have already several past projects to edit/modify/reuse/start from, but I am just the director of the film and I try to teach myself how to do these effects, and I feel like I need to learn from step 1 and take a few more months to accomplish just the smoke trails, which is discouraging at times.

On the other hand, I have had “ok” results in the past by splitting the original movie files into still images and adding the effects on each image in Photoshop. But it’s tedious as well and the results are just OK…