[Jon Fawcett]

Hi Chris

The final email I posted worked

It’s been a while so I’m not super fresh on this – I think you are better off exporting and then playing back to avoid complications within FCP – def watch out of the mix down option (deselect it)

The main issue with the Macbook Pro was with the internal speakers vs the headphone socket (which worked) – so in theory (now I think about it) you should be fine within FCP

Do a test first..?!

Jon

[Jon Fawcett]

Final summary:

1. Un-pair stereo tracks by alt+L
2. Pan them manually by selecting and ctl+, for left, ctrl+/ for right
3. For output to Quicktime, make sure your audio settings are ‘Channel Grouped’, and your Audio Output is set to Stereo (Quicktime will self-mix dual mono tracks back to stereo)

Voila

[Jon Fawcett]

SOLVED IT!!!

For anyone else’s information:

I was working on this at home on the LAPTOP (Macbook Pro). My girlfriend was using my headphones for something she was working on.

***The audio card in the Macbook Pro overrides the settings of any audio file, and part-mixes left and right tracks – WHEN PLAYING THROUGH THE INTERNAL SPEAKERS of the laptop

stupid but true

I guess its a consumer sound quality issue, fair enough. I should have tried with headphones/monitors

Got there in the end, thanks everyone for your help

Jon

[Jon Fawcett]

That’s what I did already, if I get your meaning – I deleted one track from each of my existing stereo tracks, so I just have two mono tracks, panned left and right, _1 and 1, and I still get that ‘bleed’. It’s weird huh?

[Jon Fawcett]

I wasn’t, but having done so it doesn’t change anything…

[Jon Fawcett]

As I suspected – your tip did me well, but still get this bit of ‘bleed’ or semi-mixdown (whether stereo or dual mono is selected, and whether mix down is 0 or off, in ‘Audio Outputs’)

How annoying/nearly there/not there at all!

Any more ideas?

[Jon Fawcett]

Hi Jerry thanks

I hear what you’re saying – I will try it as I don’t think I split them individually yet

BUT I have a feeling it will only give me partial success –

I have been experimenting and have hacked things up and now have a very simple timeline with just two separate audio tracks, dual mono, panned and supposedly assigned to separate tracks

AND

while I do get a distinct ‘one is on left, one is on right’ result, there is still SOME bleed from one track to the other, i.e. I hear each one faintly on the other track, like they are not fully panned. But they are.

That’s weird no?

Jon

[Jon Fawcett]

This is really helpful – I have a very similar issue but having followed this workflow I get to a point where I have separate tracks, but I can still hear a little of each one in the other – any ideas? I really need clean signal for each track…