Audio track mapping problem

I am trying to set up my audio tracks so the left channel is on audio track 1 and the right channel is on track 2. I have tried, mono, stereo and adaptive tracks and they always put both channels on only one track. How do I change this?

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Audio Channel Mapping problems

Hi Everyone,
I can't seem to find a solution to my problem.
I use Audition in two situations.
Firstly, with the internal soundcard (Mac Book Pro) when I'm out and secondly, when I'm at home with my focusrite scarlett.
When I'm out, Audition won't play as it can't find the focusrite.
Question: How do I use Audition in both situations?
My work around is to start up Audition with the shift key when I don't have the focusrite with me.
Any solutions that anyone can suggest?
With Logic, it just shows up a message saying my Focusrite isn't available.
Many thanks!

Thanks, ryclark for your reply!
When I'm not using the Focusrite:
The "Device Class" only shows "CoreAudio."
"Default Output" only shows "Built-in Output."
On the "Audio Channel Mapping" page, it has
"Output":Device: Scarlett 2i2 USB" and
on "File Channels": "1[L] Unknown-Device query failed."
So, it's remembering the Focusrite Scarlett, but then can't find it, so stops.
Weird!
Surely there's a workaround?
Thanks!

Movies - Multiple audio tracks strange problem

This is a strange problem.
I have a .mov with 2 audio tracks. One italian (the first and active) and one english. The movie is compatible with ATV.
Using QuickTime Pro I can choose the language while watching the movie.
Using iTunes I see the movie with the first language selected on preferences (cmd+j on QuicTime Pro).
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Hmm, I don't really know. I have converted the DVD with 128 kbps for the two audio traks (stereo).Sounds like I need to go back and run additional tests. For my first attempt, I used two stereo tracks -- each 128 Kbps @ 44.1 KHz. For latest test used two mono tracks with the first 64 Kbps @ 44.1 KHz (keyed to English) and the second 32 Kbps @ 32 KHz (keyed to Italian).
I create a m4v video, I open with QuickTime Pro and work on the preferences for audio traks, than I save with mov extension.Had assumed we were both using similar strategies to create alternate audio movies here. Basically I create the movie with two audio tracks and then open the "Properties" window, select the first audio track (which is already set for English), set the alternate audio track pop-up for Audio Track 2, select the second audio track, set the language pop-up to Italian for this one, and use the Save As... menu option to create a Fast Sart, Standalone movie in the MOV container.
In this way I have a perfect double-language movie that, as I told, works perfectly on QuickTime and iTunes.Did have one question though. When you say you have a "perfect double-language movie that ... works perfect on QuickTime and iTunes," are you saying you can change the language in iTunes while the movie is playing? While I have no problem changing language using the "Choose language" menu command in the QT player, I have yet to be able to find a way to do this while playing in iTunes.
UPDATE: to temporally solve the problem I have changed the infos on movie properties. Calling the English audio track "Holland" (or any other language that is listed after Italian) I have solved the problem. On Tv, iTunes and Quicktime I can hear the "default" language (italian) and, just changing again the properties, I cand hear the second language.I think we are doing the same thing only I did not bother/have to use and additial language setting to get this to work.
In this case Audio Track 2 (Italian) is the default.
In this case Audio Track 1 (English) is the default.
Thus, for my test, I created two separate movies with each defaulted differently and played them back in each program/device to see which audio track played. In each case it was the "checked" default audio track and changing the "Language" setting for TV to Italian had no effect.

Recording Multiple Audio Tracks - delay problems in 7.2 Pls HELP

Hi, I'm finding very buggy behavior - if I record across several audio tracks (say 5 mono channels) for longer then 10-15 sec. Logic HANGS for a long time when I'm done with a take - 15-25 secs of the spinning ball icon, and then will redraw and start the dialog box that says it's computing the overview. I'm currently on 7.2.2 but I also tried going back to 7.2.1 and it's still doing this. I have the "faster overview calculation" box un-checked, but it didn't seem to make any difference either way. I also tried this on a new file, same problem -
I also already tried recording to different drives, and selecting and unselecting the 'record limit' dialog in the record destination dialog - I usually have this set to a max recording time of about 7 minutes. None of these changes affected the sluggish behavior.
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thanx

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Try running repair permissions and a disk diagnostic tool if you have it. Are you using an internal or external drive? Try recording to a different drive if you can and see whether the problem persists.
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Hi guys. I've been working on some voice reels today, and for some reason my finished and exported files sound different to how they sound in Audition - basically, the music tracks increase in volume whenever the voice actor isn't speaking. As mentioned, this isn't happening in the Multitrack session, just when playing back the exported track in a third-party app, and has only been happening today. I've tried messing around with the Audio Channel Mapping and Audio Hardware settings in the Preferences, without any joy. I'm suspecting something's got messed up on the sound card, but just wanted to check that I haven't missed something painfully obvious inside of Audition!
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Can't answer that without quite a bit more information about the third-party apps, what exactly you're exporting, workflow, etc. It won't be a mapping issue though - that will only affect the output of Audition to a hardware device.
But if you are exporting a single file with everything on, and it plays okay in Windows Media Player, for instance, then whatever is happening isn't with Audition, but whatever you are putting it back into. It sounds as though some sort of auto-leveling system is at work - and Audition wouldn't do that unless set up very specifically to do so.

Merge Clips w/ Synced Audio, Tracks Map Weird

I've synced some clips in a sequence. There's the camera with camera audio, then 3-4 discrete audio tracks from different files. When I click those clips and "Merge" them into one, then I open the clip created in the Project Panel, then look at that clips Mixer, the audio tracks are not in order they were in the sequence. They are in fact in no order. The camera Tracks which are on 1+2 in the sequence can be 1+5 or something with other audio tracks or dead tracks in there. I want to merge the clip and have the newly created file in the same order as the sequence. How do I do this? Thanks

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Audio track volume low?

I Bus recorded my midi EXS drum track by routing it to Bus1 and by choosing Bus1 as an Input on the Audio track.
Problem now is that the Audio track is not loud enough. I normalized it using the Functions menu in the sample editor window. But when I play the audio region in the arrange window there is absolutely no volume increase?
Please help.

It's an old school assumption to always think the maximum level will lead to better results. With 24-Bit we have a lot of headroom and the resolution of Audio even at lower levels is appropriate.
Normalizing will alter the waveforms, add the empty bits at the top to the bottom of the file thus raising the level as well as the noise floor.
http://gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/21302-does-trk-normalizin g-lose-headroom-mix.html
Mastering Audio by Bob Katz is a good book for these kind of topics...
I actually just made a test with some sine waves, the normalized sine wave had 0,3% of DC offset added whereas the original file had 0% DC offset.
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When I try to map faders to the volume in audio tracks it only lets me map the "selected track"

LogicX user. I'm trying to map my mpd32's faders up with four audio tracks to control their volume. For the first three tracks, I can map the faders accordingly, and in the Controller Assignments window, in the "channel strip" section on the right, they all say "fader bank (1-3)", which is correct. When I get to the fourth audio track, and I go through the same steps as I have to map the first three audio tracks, the channel strip section says "selected track: 1" instead of what I thought it would say: "fader bank 4". When I try and manually change that to "fader bank 4", I move the control that I want it to be mapped to, it and the text automatically switches back to saying "selected track 1". I made sure that none of the tracks that I was trying to map were selected before I did this. I'm not new to logic by any means but I seriously need to be able to control these all at the same time for a performance I'm trying to do soon. It is driving me ******* crazy.

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New audio track in arrange page problem

In the LSA I have 64 audio tracks and 32 audio instruments set up. When I open Logic, my autoload contains 16 audio tracks and my environment is configured as I set it up in the LSA. Everything is as it should be. However, when I select track 16 in the arrange page and use the key command control>shift>return to add another track, audio16 is duplicated. When I use the menu to 'create with next instrument' audio17 is created, but in my environment, my 64 audio tracks are reduced to 24. Using the menu to add audio tracks only lets me add to 24.
I've trashed my preferences but that did nothing.
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Any help in the frustrating situation is most appreciated!

It is normal that Logic uses the same audio object
when you create a track with control-shift-return,
that's the way it's supposed to be. If you want to
create a new track and a new audio object assigned to
it, "create with next instrument" is the way to do
it. You could also use "create multiple..."
in the drop down menu it says that the key command for 'create with next instrument' is control>shift>return.
If you're limited to 24 tracks, I'd check in your
audio preferences. Your maximum tracks limit is
probably set to 24 tracks.
my audio preferences are set to 64 tracks of audio.
thanks for the reply!

Encore CS3 - Hangs and import problems with menus and avi footage with audio tracks present.

I'm trying to import some footage files in .avi format into Encore CS3 and am having several problems.
In what follows when I say "crash" I mean Encore quits with a standard Windows error. When I say "hang" I mean Encore does not quit but rather becomes an unresponsive process that must be killed manually using Windows Task Manager.
My System:
WinXP Pro SP2
2.93 GHz Intel Celeron CPU - single core
Intel PERL mobo
3GB 400MHz RAM
NVidia 7800GS video
I mention these specs however I am not experiencing any hardware
related bugs or issues (like out of memory or video driver crashes
etc) when using any CS3 app.
The footage files (as reported by GSpot) and problems I am seeing. In all cases GSpot reports that I have the appropriate codec installed:
footage1.avi - Dx50 XVid 1.0.3, Dolby AC3 48kHz 192kb/s, 716834 KB
Attempting to import as timeline causes Encore CS3 to hang.
Importing as an Asset allows it to import but when I try to click
on it in the project windown to add it to a new empty timeline,
Encore hangs. It plays fine in Windows Media Player.
footage2.avi - Dx50 XVid 1.0.3, MPEG-1 Layer 3 48kHz 128kb/s, 718302 KB
Imports fine as either a timeline or asset but no audio track comes
with it, even though there is an audio track in the footage. It plays
fine in Windows Media Player. Video imports perfectly, just no audio.
footage3.avi - Dx50 XVid 1.0.3, MPEG1-Layer3 48kHz 112kb/s, 717606 KB
Imports fine as either a timeline or asset but no audio track comes
with it, even though there is an audio track in the footage. It plays
fine in Windows Media Player. Video imports perfectly, just no
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each using MPEG1-Layer3 44kHz 192kb/s audio, and got the same issue
upon importing into Encore CS3. I also loaded it into Camtasia
Studio and it looked fine over there. The audio was present and I
was able to export it as a .WAV file. When I tried looking at the
file in Soundbooth CS3, there was no audio track or, more
accurately, the audio track was a flat line.
By way of comparison these are importing perfectly:
footage4.avi - XVID XviD 1.1.0 Beta2, MPEG1-Layer3 48kHz 189kb/s Two mono
channels LAME3.96r, 717436 KB.
footage5.avi - XVID XviD 1.1.0 Final, Dolby AC3 48kHz 448kb/s Six
channels (3/2 .1), 716418 KB.
footage6.avi - XVID XviD 1.1.0 Final, Dolby AC3 48kHz 448kb/s Six
channels (3/2 .1), 716418 KB.
footage7.avi - XVID XviD 1.0.3, Dolby AC3 48kHz 448kb/s 6 channels
(3/2 .1), 717502 KB
footage8.avi - XVID XviD 1.0.3, Dolby AC3 48kHz 448kb/s 6 channels
(3/2 .1), 717180 KB
footage9.avi - XVID XviD 1.1.2 Final, Dolby AC3 48kHz 448kb/s 6 channels
(3/2 .1), 2291904 KB
Although this one imported & transcoded correctly, when I went to
build it to a DVD image file I got some strange errors during the
"planning video" stage that prevented the process from completing.
Unfortunately I neglected to write down the error message I recieved
which read like quite nonsensical babble to me, and I have since
deleted the project folder. I remember it was not a memory or
display related error and it included a timestamp where the error
was happening. I played the footage in the preview panel thru the
identified timestamp but it previewed perfectly without even a
jitter in either the video or audio. Took forever to transcode so I
doubt I'll be doing this one again anytime soon.
Another issue I am having is with the motion menus. I burned a DVD and it does not load correctly in one of my DVD players (a Sony rdr-gx330 recorder/player). It appears to take extra time to recognize the disk, the startup (first-play) menu does not show automatically, and I must press the Main Menu button on the

Another issue I am having is with the motion menus. I burned a DVD and it does not load correctly in one of my DVD players (a Sony rdr-gx330 recorder/player). It appears to take extra time to recognize the disk, the startup (first-play) menu does not show automatically, and I must press the Main Menu button on the remote control to make it appear. Other than that it seems to play ok in that player. Also tested it in 2 other DVD players (a Panasonic and Zenith) and it worked just fine like it's supposed to in them. Also plays perfectly in my computer's DVD player/burner using Windows Media Player v10. I tried burning to Memorex +RW single-layer single-sided disks at 6, 7, & 8Mbps project settings but got the exact same result every time.
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Encore CS3 appears on the surface to be a very powerful, feature rich, and approachable app with a simple easy to use interface, but it is awfully bugged in just about every area I have explored and still needs lots and lots of work for it to be really useful. Frankly for me it is pretty damn annoying that I have invested so much money in this suite only to find several of the apps in it (Encore & Premiere in particular) behaving this poorly. In my opinion every single app in the suite exhibits lousy performance whenever you must do anything at all involving the disk from the time you click to start it up until the time you click to close it down. Several of them are just as seriously bugged as Encore too, and being a long time Photoshop v5.5 user I expected much more from Adobe. Even Photoshop is two or three times as slow now (e.g. it takes about 20-30 seconds to simply create an empty 500x500 pixel image file and almost a full minute to load a 30x60 pixel single-layer gif). So far I have attempted to create 6 DVDs using Encore and after 3 weeks of effort have only succeeded in getting one of them onto a final disk -- and that one is kinda limping to work correctly in my DVD player. Three of those projects became so corrupted while working on them that I had to delete them completely and recreate them from scratch, only to find that I still couldn't get them to completion for one reason or another. Seriously disappointing.

Encore CS6: Rebuilding audio tracks | PROBLEM

Hello, guys. Greetings from Brazil.
I'm having a problem with Encore CS6 during the authoring process and thought you guys could help me out with this. My Blu-ray project contains 29 video files (total of 2h 22m) and I have 5 psd menus (with an audio background from another file) in it. The files weren't with the same resolution/settings so I converted them in .MOV files with the same audio rate but keeping the resolution differences. I watch it inside Encore and it works just fine.
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Please, can you guys help me?
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Sorry for doubling the post, Bens.
So, I fixed the issue by replacing the Play All timeline (in which I reinserted the mov clips in a long, continuous sequence) for a Playslist, using the timelines that were already created. I found an information that the act of putting mov files in a long sequence may cause a sort of incompatibility with the audio tracks. Something about the ac3, don't know exactly
But yes, the problem was solved when I used a Playlist instead of a new, huge, timeline.
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I am using iMovie HD 5.0.2 to sync some audio with a video. I only need to line up the audio and then export to AIFF so I can covert the AIFF to AC3 and mux it with an m2v file. My problem is that I was able to clip the unneeded beginning of the audio and drag the audio clip forward to match up with the video but iMovie is not letting me move the audio forward again. I am a touch off (the audio starts at .08 seconds into the video and I need it to start at .07 seconds). iMovie is not letting me move the audio to the left up to that .07 second mark (or even before that mark had I wanted it there) nor is it letting me move the audio back. Additionally, it seems to take a lot of work just to highlight the track again so I can try to move it.
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Message was edited by: Danielmak

Hi Danielmak,
I haven't used iMovie HD (nor HD 6) for a while, so working from memory here!
Drag the audio track to the Desktop. This creates an .aiff audio file which can be opened in QuickTime Player or iTunes or other audio program. Import the aiff track into iTunes. Now place the iMovie playhead at the exact point where you wish the audio track to start. Finally, highlight the track in the Audio section of the Media window and click on "Place at Playhead".
If this works successfully, you will need to delete the original audio track, which will be still in place. Dragging it to the Desktop doesn't move it, but simply copies it.
These instructions apply to iMovie HD 6 but something similar should also work for iMovie HD (version 5.0.2) - just can't recall the exact layout.
If iMovie doesn't like the .aiff file, you may need to convert it to mp3 (easily done in iTunes).
Hope this works for you!
John

Problems Sycing multiple Audio tracks with Video. Please help

I have a video clip from my Cannon 70D that im trying to sync with 2 seperate audio tracks from my Zoom. One LR stero track and one wireless mic track.
I select all three clips in the event windo and chose SYNC CLIPS from the clip menu. I take the Syncronized clip and place it in the time line , but when i go to expand audio there are only two track available - The scratch audio from the camera clip and what appears to the LR audio from the Zoom. Hard to tell though because Final Cut renames the Audio for me. I did notice that the sample rate on the video and audio files are different. Could that be the problem?

I haven't had much luck with SYNC CLIPS. I suggest you use Multicam instead.
Go to the Inspector and set up your Canon video as Angle 1. Set Zoom XY as Angle 2, and set Zoom wireless mic as Angle 3. Then Select the clips and FILE/NEW MULTICAM CLIP.
http://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.1/#ver23c764f1

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Hi there,
I'm using CS4, and have created a 30 minute film which I've exported as an H.264 - it's 653MB. When I play this file from my PC, it's perfect. When I burn it to a data DVD, however, the audio track is interrupted every few seconds with blips of silence - like it's stalling. (I've been unable to burn it as a video DVD so far as the various software I've tried rejects the file format.)
I've burnt it twice on my laptop and once on another desktop with the same results. I urgently need to send the file to a Mac owner - what should I do? Could this be a fault with the file or with the burning software? Perhaps I didn't do something right with the audio track?
I'll greatly appreciate your help!
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For authoring a DVD-Video, follow Harm's advice and Export to DV-AVI Type II w/ 48KHz 16-bit PCM/WAV Audio.
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