Import 2 separate audio tracks

If I import into FCP off of a camera that recorded two separate audio tracks, why aren't they separate?
On Ch2 I used the nat sound mic and I used a separate mic on Ch1 to record interviews. They were definately different when I was listening on my headphones, but now both Mono tracks, 1 & 2, are the same. The nat sound is way too loud.
Any advice?

It's pretty simple. IF you captured as channel 1 and channel 2 audio (not stereo) FCP set them up as mono tracks that are both panned to the center in the stereo field. To get a more discrete listening experience, pan one to the left and the other to the right.
Unless you are an audio whiz, it does not make sense to use both of those tracks in your final mix, because you risk phasing problems, where one track tends to cancel out parts of the other.

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You need to ask this on the Final Cut Studio forum
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=939

No visual of separate audio tracks

In the beginning, iMovie opens. I see picture and hear audio from the imported footage.
The audio exists in the video track. Then, I drag audio from GarageBand to the separate audio tracks. But wait!
In timeline view I don't see the visible presentation of the audio tracks. It is blank.
However, I can hear the audio that I have just dragged to the invisible audio tracks. I 'undo' the audio drag, and there is no audio to be heard on the separate tracks (so, I know I have some control over the audio).
But, there are no distinguishable tracks.
The area is blank.
The audio tracks are audible, and not visible.
It's as if the programmer forgot to put in the thing that tells the machine to show the tracks.
What's up doc?
P.S. Maybe we should get things right before we move onto other things.

Hi Wayne:
Try deleting the imovie preference file. Locate a file named com.apple.imovie.plist and get rid of it. Then empty the trash, run a permissions repair with disk utility and restart. That should do it. The files you need to delete are found in:
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.imovie.plist
Then try this list (compliments of P.T.Patrick):
*Run MacJanitor (free download) to do all the Unix Cron Maintenance scripts.
*Run Disk Utility (Applications -> Utilities) and repair disk permissions on your start up drive (typically your internal drive). Also verify any other drives mounted on the system.
*Run Preferential Treatment (free download) to check for corrupt/damaged application and system preference files.
*Run Cache Out X (free download) to clear all system and application caches.
*Reboot your Mac.
Sue

How do I add/import multiple audio tracks when adding a video to the Elements timeline?

I have 2 audio tracks that have been made, but only 1 is being brought in. ( It is a .Ts video file that is from Hauppauge Capture and it has game play audio and commentary audio that is being over-layed.) They are written as separate audio tracks but when imported into Premier only 1 of the 2 are being brought in. Is there a way to bring in both files?

pinhead276
It is my recollection that we had a similar question a little while ago on this question. I do not recall the outcome. My first impression "it is what it is", but I am trying to dust off my memory to make sure that the user did not come up with a unique way to workaround the situation. I will start searching for the thread that I think that I remember.
If you find the thread first, please post and let us know.
More later.
ATR

No visual presentation of the two separate audio tracks

I originally had iMovie 4. Then I installed iMovie 6.
I am able to see and hear audio in the video track, but I cannot see any visual indication that I have audio in the 2 separate audio tracks.
I can hear the audio that I import from Garage Band, but there is no visual presentation.
To simplify, there is no indication that there is a place for audio tracks when I am in the time line view.
But, I can hear the audio when I import it.
Also, I cannot 'drag & drop' the audio file, yet I can 'apply' it to the playhead.
Any ideas?
[email protected]
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) iMovie HD6

Hi Sue:
Thanks for the reply.
I did what you requested, but I have the same situation.
The entire audio track graphic does not exist.
But, I can drop audio into the 'invisible' track and hear it.
The Pro Care guy I see does not know what's happening either.
If you have any other ideas, please let me know...
wayne
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1.25GhZ; 768RAM; iLife 06

How do you export separate audio tracks for Pro Tools?

I need to give separate audio tracks to my sound mixer but am confused on how to do so in FCP X.
So far I've:
Set the dialogue roles and stems for each character
Then I went into Master File>Settings
Selected:
"Format: Audio Only"
"Audio File Format: Wav File"
"Roles as: Audio only as separate files"
"Dialogue"
Sara
"Stereo"
And when I export and listen back to the wav file, there is either no audio or I hear select dialogue.
The only thing I can think of that I am doing wrong, is that each characters dialogue is not on the same track like the picture below. The tracks highlighted is of one character's dialogue that I am trying to export onto one linear track to export into Pro Tools.
Can tracks be assigned in FCP X? Or is there a crucial step that I am forgetting tthat explains why the audio for each character is not being exported.
Thanks!

If you're dumping audio for ProTools, you should be able to export XML for use in PT. Haven't done it myself, but the option's been there for a while now. You should be able to find instructions easily.
If you want to stick with making Roles work, I suggest making sure the roles are assigned properly to each clip. Kind of a super pain in the neck, to go one by one, but ... that's the way. There are key commands for the three default roles, but if you've created custom ones then it's more time consuming. Is that 'Sara' one a custom Role that you've created?
My only thought is you have compound audio clips there. Maybe go in and set the roles on the individual files inside the compound clips. Dunno...
The visual organization shouldn't matter (one track above another). That's the X way.
((In your picture, you say you have some files selected. When I select, I get a yellow border; yours are light green and dark green. What is that?))

Can you generate separate audio tracks from a Multi-Output Instrument?

Is there a way to use the "export all tracks as audio files" function and have the multi-output assignments generate separate audio tracks? There doesn't appear to be a way to do this.
Ideas?

I think you'll need to bounce them out, or record them via busses...

Is it possible to separate audio tracks and/or timecode on clips in browser

I transcoded my AF100 clips with log and transfer and came out with all my audio in stereo tracks. There are two separate tracks corresponding to the two mics but they are linked. I know I can separate them one by one on my timeline, but I'm wondering if there's away to select all the clips and do the same thing in my browser, since I have to do the same thing to ALL my hundreds of clips.
Similarly, I made audio tracks without timecode for my transcribers. Now I have to go in and set an auxiliary timecode starting at 00 for all my clips. I'm wondering if there's a way to do that for all the clips at once. I wish I had set the camera to start the timecode at 00 for each clip, but I didn't think of that in time.
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I don't know much about your business except what you've said but my first impression is that you are way over-thinking and over-producing; your situation is unnecessarily complicated.
I am finishing to DVD. I tried before production to figure out the best way to get these clips to my transcribers ASAP- the start to finish on this project is very short, and it was taking too long to compress clips stamped with TC and the Pro Res clips I am making via Log and Trasfer are huge and don't play well on every computer (all of my trasncribers are on PCs) Also, they are all in a country other than the one I was producing in, so getting them Pro-Res clips would have meant mailing lots of drives internationally. The easiest way to get the transcribers the clips turned out to be using Drop Box to send them audio clips. If you still think I'm over producing, do tell- I'm def not one who enjoys over-anything and if there is a more minimalist approach I'd love to know!
You can, of course, create actions or macros, if you understand the programming, to run batch processing but only if all of the files can be processed in the same way.
So, is there any way to set auxiliary timecodes OR to separate audio tracks on every single clip in my browser?
And is there a way to get Log and Transfer to create clips that don't have the audio in stereo?
Thanks

How to import 2 separate audio tracks and keep them separate?

I need advice about importing two separate simultaneous audio tracks and keeping them separate. I am importing footage from my Sony PDX-10 DV Cam.
In the field I had wireless microphones on two people, a man and woman. I interviewed them separately. The man was on channel 1 and the woman was on channel 2.
While shooting the man, for example, I could also hear the open mic of the woman who was maybe a block away talking to some friends. But her distracting sound was on CH 2 and in playback on the camera, if I dial down the volume of CH 2, I no longer hear the woman and I have a clean audio track, Ch 1, of the man who is being filmed.
I'm trying to import the interviews into iMovies with only the relevant track turned up and the distracting track turned down. When I listen to the audio from the camera on my headsets, I can get clean sound of just the person who is on camera. But the FIREWIRE seems to grab both tracks, even though in playback i'm listening only to the clean track.
Does anyone know how I can send just one audio track to IMovie? Any way to prevent the Firewire from importing both Ch 1 and Ch 2 at the same time?
I only want the sound that's relevant to the person who is on camera. And I know that in the camera, it's possible to listen to just the track from one channel. I'm hearing just one track through the headsets, because I can sucessfully dial down the other track. That's the way I want to import the footage to iMovie. But the FIrewire seems to grab all the sound it can find and carry over both CH 1 and CH 2, which means I'm left with a jumble of sound that is not useful.
And finally, if the firewire needs to grab both tracks, is there a way to assign them to two separate tracks in iMovie, so I can then simply turn one of the tracks off?
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welcome finecut to the  boards of discssions ...
nope.
iM handles the two stereo-channels as "one track", and offers 3 tracks of stereo.. (the one inside the video, 2 additional tracks...)
I would... :
* export clip(s) share/Quicktime/Expert Settings/aiff..
* in a designated audio processor (Garageband, Audacity, ...) seperate the two channels, creating two "new" ones, stereo, where one channel is located in the stereo middle..
* import these two "stereo" files into iM, into Track2 and Track 3 ...
.. boom!done

Separate audio tracks in iMovie?

I recorded my movie with separate voice and background audio tracks. When I import it into iMovie, it's just a single audio file. Is there any way to separate the audio files within iMovie?

Hi
How do You record ? With what Camera ?
• 2 Stereo tracks - one with background one with voice ?
• 2 x 2 Stereo -
• 5:1 audio
• 7:1 audio
iMovie can use ONE Stereo Audio track.
To get audio OK I use
• Audacity (free from Internet) or
• GarageBand - where I can also do Audio works
BTW - to get full freedom - Use FinalCut Pro
Yours Bengt W

Deleting or Editing Separate Audio Tracks

Al answered my previous questions about capturing video.
Perhaps others can help me with this.
When I import a video clip I also get two tracks of audio. Fine, but I can't figure out how to delete one of them or to adjust the volume on just one track.
Whatever I do affects both tracks. I've changed all the audio controls to left of the audio timeline, but nothing seems to help.
Thanks.

Select the audio tracks in the timeline and then Modify/Stereo Pair (opt-L): this will separate the two tracks.
Piero

How do I import multiple audio tracks?

Hi there...
I have a number of video files that have multiple audio tracks in them. The problem is I can not work out how to get prem to see multiple audio tracks. The files import fine and I have also tried various other formates with multi-track audio.. but only audio "stream 1" is visible in prem.
What I was hoping is that the video would come in with a 2 audio tracks instead of 1 each in its own "lane".. so I can then use the mixer and the audio files are linked to the video file and in perfect sync.. (just like when you import with 1 track)
NOTE: I am not talking about channels.. but complete 2 completely different audio tracks.. and I know that I could extract these audio streams into wavs and then re-sync them but this seams overkill and a duplication of effort... surly there is a way to have prem support more than 1 audio track on a video file?
--Me

Well, if PP doesn't bring them in, then best guess is they just don't exist.
There's really no trick or user adjustment for this that I'm aware of. You import the file, PP sees what's in it. I've never observed or read about any other behavior than that.

Feature Request: Ability to import multiple audio tracks

Hello, I'm having a problem with Premiere Pro CC 2014.2. Unfortunately it lacks an important feature that I require if I'm to transition from Sony Vegas Pro. I much prefer Premiere, but I'm stuck using Vegas due to Premiere's inability to import all the audio tracks in my video files. I've seen a few other people around the internet complaining of the same problem and they also feel that it's rather silly for such a major editing software to lack this feature.
Here is an example video file. If you open it in Premiere Pro you'll not be able to hear my microphone, although it's there in Windows Media Player and Sony Vegas.
APB 2014-12-11 18-29-16-795.avi - Google Drive

All I get is "left" and "right". I tried to set the number of channels to 2 but it just ended up with an empty channel.
Here's the audio specs from MediaInfo:
Audio #1
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Little
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : 1
Duration                                 : 11mn 44s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 129 MiB (1%)
Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration                     : 10 ms (0.60 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration             : 60 ms
Audio #2
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Little
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : 1
Duration                                 : 11mn 44s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 129 MiB (1%)
Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration                     : 10 ms (0.60 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration             : 50 ms
I've read on several video editing forums that this is just how Premiere is and you simply can't load the audio channel. Also the video file was made in Bandicam. I've also tried Dxtory and had the same problem.
Edit:
Looked at the media properties for the video and saw this:
Audio track 1:
Size is 42.74M bytes
Rate is 48000 samples/sec
Sample size is 16 bits
Audio track 2:
Size is 0 bytes
Rate is 48000 samples/sec
Sample size is 16 bits
I know for a fact that there's audio data in that track.

Importing multiple audio tracks from FCE HD

On page 22 of the FCE HD manual it says of importing Quicktime movies "...new audio tracks are added below the video track for EACH audio track in the movie". This does not seem to be the case when I import movies exported for Soundtrack. Is the manual wrong, or is it me?
Sorry if this is a FAQ, I've tried a lot of searches and I can't find anything.
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Ok - I'm back again. I've been fooling around a bit with this and this is what I have come up with. ST only allows 1 track in at a time. Multitracks of audio from FCE are flattened down which makes it impossible to tweak them individually in ST. I turned the link button off in FCE and exported the audio tracks one at a time. Each track you bring into ST has to be opened in a new ST project file. Then you can tweak them and export them out of ST, and bring them back into FCE.
My opinion however is that ST is such a weak and watered down verion of STP that it is actually better and more time efficient to use the audio tools in FCE to fix your audio problems and do your mix. Sure, if you have STP its a great program - but ST has none of the power tools that its big rother STP has. You are much better using FCE.

How to separate Audio tracks

Hi there
Yes, I know I'm a community expert so you mighty be wondering why one would be asking here, but not for Premeire Elements. This app is new to me!
I have a clip I've inserted into PE that was recorded with some odd stereo effect. I'm hoping there is an easy way to listen to each side of the stereo independently, decide which is the more pleasing of the two, then remove either the left channel or the right and fill in the opposite channel with the same audio.
I've unlinked the audio from the video but am unsure how to proceed from there.
Thanks in advance for any insight!
Cheers... Rick

Rick,
Not sure how I managed to do this in PE, but I managed to delete the existing audio track and bring back in the modified one.
I'm not sure either. Maybe brute force and a chisle to the monitor... ?
The easiest way, for next time, is to Import that new PCM/WAV into the Project with Get Media>Folders & Files. Then, Alt+click (you are on PC, aren't you?) on the original Audio Clip (or Audio Stream of a muxed file), and Delete. Then, drag your recently Imported PCM/WAV from the Project Panel to the now empty Audio Track, where the Deleted Audio Clip was. If you have Snap ON (the S key toggles that), as you get the Head of the PCM/WAV replacement file near that of the Video Clip, the Audio will "snap" ito place.
Glad that it worked for you.
As stated earlier, PE certainly lacks any form of being intuitive to use. I'm really shocked this is aimed at consumers! Couple that with the, ummm "less than stellar" help system and you really have a (cough) winning combo there!
Most of us here are in complete agreement with you. We are very fortunate to have a wonderful MOD, Steve Grisetti, who is also a prolific author, and most of his books are how to do things in PrElements (and PSElements in two cases). Steve has also done a Basic Training Series of tutorials and articles on Muvipix.com, a Web site that he co-founded. After one finishes with that, he has a complete Learning Series of tutorials and articles, though those are available by subscription to the site. The Basic Training Series is free.
Most subscribers here point to those, the books and tutorial series, to help new users get going. Of all the Adobe programs, that could benefit from a manual, PrE is definitely one. With PrPro, the user often has a good background in NLE video work, so it's easier to use the Help Files, as they are looking for how PrPro differs from, say AVID. With PrE, the user is often very fresh to NLE work, and so many show up here totally lost. I'd love to see Adobe strike a deal with Steve, to include a copy of his PrE book with every copy!
Good luck, and glad that we could help,
Hunt

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