Mono audio tracks to stereo

I cannot get my mono clips to become stereo. I tried highlighting both audio tracks (one, is imported music/ two, is imported b roll audio) and doing option -L and it does not work. Cannot even get the stereo pair in the modify pull down to highlight.

I've noticed that since I've upgraded from FCP 4.5 to FCP 5, I can no longer change the audio track config of an offline clip in the browser. I used to be able to ctrl-click in the Audio column, and it would bring up a submenu where I could change from A1+A2 to Stereo.
Now there is no such option. Am I doing something wrong?
massachi

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I don't think I unchecked the "Include volume and pan automation" checkbox before the "Bounce - replace all tracks" conversion. I hadn't added any volume or pan automations I figured: you can't include something I haven't added, although I did probably have the pan controls set in the mixer. Anyway, now I want to convert my six (previously mono) tracks from stereo back to mono, preserving as much as possible the original mono sound quality before it was converted to stereo, so that I can start mixing. Every MP3 I've exported is ignoring the pan settings I have in the mixer, I suspect due to the fact that the audio for each track is now stereo (I changed the tracks back to "mono" in the mixer but the audio remains in stereo). Unfortunately I don't have any unused audio files in the audio bin and I killed the undo history as well.

Thats what I came up with:
As you can see I got a stereo file on track 1 to start with,
Now go to the corresponding channel strip and switch to mono,
Perform a BIP to a new track
and the result will be in mono.
Regards

Grouping a clip's mono audio tracks after capture

Every time I drag a clip to the timeline, I have to click on the clip, and link the audio tracks as a stereo pair, which is really annoying. After a while, I realized that this is because whoever captured the clips forgot to group tracks a1 and a2 together, so now the clips all have two seperate mono tracks.
Now that the clips are already captured, how do I group the two audio tracks into a stereo pair?

Hey Red Truck,
It sounds like you're pretty much doing everything right. My guess is that if your footage was shot, "logged and transfered" with 4 mono audio tracks (like a lot of HD tapeless stuff does, XDCAM, P2) then this little trick might not actually work. If your footage was shot, logged and digitized as 2 mono tracks (again, maybe the diff being a 2 channel miniDV tape as opposed to the common 4 channel HD stuff) the trick usually works. But truthfully, once in a while I noticed it doesn't work and am still unable to explain why.
I kinda have a feeling that I've only ever used the trick on DV-NTSC and DVCPRO 50 two-channel footage and not on HD footage that typically comes in 4 channel mono off P2 and XDCAM.
I'll try to do a test at my end and see if I'm even in the ballpark on this guess. I'm also assuming you're trying this on 4-channel HD footage since you mentioned "...(or four) mono audio tracks" in your post. If you are, for the fun of it, media manage an HD clip down to DV-NTSC with 2 channel stereo audio and try the trick.
It does work as I've done it numerous times on shows in FCP when assist editors accidentally logged and batch captured hours and hours of footage as dual mono instead of stereo.

Adjusting multiple mono audio tracks with the Audio Mixer

Anybody know how to adjust multiple mono audio tracks simultaneously with the audio mixer? If your tracks are stereo, one fader will control two faders or audio tracks. Suppose you have 6 mono audio tracks and don't want to pull down each fader separately. Is there a way to pull down one fader and have the others locked to it, or controlled by it?

Not with the sliders, but you can adjust levels with ctrl [ and ctrl ] (I think, not at fcp right now).
The autoselect buttons (to the right of the lock icons, at the head of the timeline) tell fcp which track to adjust...
Rienk

Exporting mono audio tracks as mono audio tracks with video tracks

hello,
i'm working with dv pal 48 khz digitized files. when i import the files into fcp7, i have a video track and 4 different mono audio tracks. my plan is to modify each individual mono track, after exporting each as aif, editing them, and then importing them back as aif. the problem is that when i've built a sequence with 1 video track and 4 different mono audio tracks, there doesn't seem to be a way to end up with 4 different mono audio tracks like the original, it appears that the only option is to end up with 2 stereo tracks. can someone help me with this, which i'm sure is a very odd problem?
kind regards,
charlie

If you are editing the audio with Soundtrack Pro you can use the "send to" command. It will send your project as a multi-track file so that each track can be editited independently or you can add elements to all four.
If you have Logic, add it to the "external audio editors" list and you can use it in the same way as STP.
x

Stereo vs. Mono Audio Tracks - Why?

I tink one of the most annyoying features of Premiere is the way it handles audio tracks. I'm curious if this is just me or if anyone else out there is bothered by the same thing.
I work on a kids' show that has lots of music, sound effects and often 4 different mics for the actors at the same time. Since I record 2 mics on each cam (R and L), I like to import everything as mono clips so it breaks up my audio and I can label who's on what layer/track.
Sometimes I end up with 20 different audio tracks. Not because I NEED 20 layers, but because some of my SFX and music come in as stereo and others as mono and I can't put a mono-clip on a stereo clip or vice versa. This is the part that drives me crazy. I might need to add a 1-second swoosh SFX for some text coming in and I've got to go to layer 12 (scrolling way down), when just below the video there are 11 empty layers "available" but can't be used because they won't accept placement of that track because it's in stereo when the clip is mono. Make sense? So, really, instead of needing 20 tracks, I could EASILY get by with 10 IF Premiere had a way of not being so picky about whether a track is stero or mono and could just handle whatever you dish at it.

Maybe I have just used PrPro long enough, that I accept the Audio Tracks and channel-count. It makes perfect sense to me, but then maybe I am missing something important. If one does not have the necessary Audio Track, PrPro will create one for you.
This ARTICLE goes into much more detail.
Only thing that I would like changed, is the ability to drag Audio Tracks up/down, like on many DAW's. Otherwise, there is a little "dance," that needs to be done, to organize Audio Tracks.
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Hunt

How to make two mono audio tracks into a stereo pair?

My video clip, brought over into Premiere CS6 from Final Cut Pro 5, has the usual left and right audio tracks, but in Premiere they are not linked into a stereo pair. Thus the volume level has to be adjusted separately in each track.
In Final Cut, I can quickly convert two independent audio tracks into a stero pair by selecting the tracks and then going to the menu Modify > Stereo Pair. I can't figure out how to do this in Premiere.
When two audio tracks are not linked, the volume level has to be adjusted separately in each track, which wastes time. But after two tracks are linked into a Stereo Pair in Final Cut, adjusting either track adjusts them both, together. That's what I want to do now in Premiere.
So, how do I make two separate audio tracks into a linked Stereo Pair in Premiere?
Tom

Hi Tom,
Tom77 wrote:
I need to do in my videos that I either can't do in Premiere or that require involved workarounds like this, things that I can do instantly
I used to think like you do. These aren't workarounds, per se. The issue is that Premiere Pro is a different program, so you have to approach some things slightly differently.
Actually, Premiere Pro's audio capability is more like a DAW than Final Cut was, and more powerful too, so if you know that workflow it makes more sense. A lot of FCP people don't have training in programs like ProTools or Audition, so it's more difficult for folks like yourself (and me, too) to catch on. Once you learn it, though, you begin to see its power.
Tom77 wrote:
things that I can do instantly with the flick of a keyboard command in Final Cut, such as link and unlink audio tracks.
In Premiere Pro CC, you can link and unlink audio and video tracks with a keyboard shortcut for "Linked Selection." You have to create it in your Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box, but it works just like the one in FCP. Make it Shift + L if you like.
Tom77 wrote:
Not to mention the fact that I can have as many projects open in Final Cut as I want, and copy and paste between them. Each open project becomes a tab on the timeline, and I can jump beween projects by just clicking on their tabs. I was shocked when I tried to open two projects in Premiere to find that it only allows one at a time to be open. That seems really primitive--
Again, you can achieve what you want (copying and using items from other projects), you just have to go about it differently. All you do is navigate to the other project files in the Media Browser and import items that you need in this fashion. So, no, you don't have more than one project open at a time, but you got what you wanted, stuff from another projects in your current project. That works for me, anyway.
Again, Premiere Pro is a different program. You can achieve the same goals, but sometimes have to go about it differently. Some things are faster, some slower. Some are easier to learn, some harder. Hopefully, you see my point.
I need video generators to make arrows, circles, squares, etc. and transitions such as edge wipes and clock wipes to animate them, all to point out and emphasize things that I'm demonstrating and explaining in my videos. Premiere has no such generators, nor are there any third-party plug-ins available to add them, that I've been able to find.
Do you know about the Titler? It has a lot of useful shapes. You can also create shapes in After Effects and Photoshop and import them. The shapes you make in those programs can look a lot better than the stock FCP effects.
There are lots of third party effects, some that have generators. Check out Boris Continuum, FX Factory, CoreMelt, Film Impact, and more.
There are pitifully few transitions in Premiere at all (the Mac version) compared to Final Cut.
I'm really not a transitions person, and I find the FCP transitions looking tired anyway. The only one I really need is a white flash and I can either create it, or use a third party flash effect. If you need cool, modern transitions, check out Film Impact or the other third party plug in foundries I mentioned. There is an Edge Wipe transition, called "Wipe." If you need feathering, check out the Wipe Effect, which you can keyframe to look like a transition.
More and more I would like to be moving completely into Premiere, but I keep running into these inadequacies in the program, these roadblocks, for my purposes at least.
The more you work with it, the less you'll be working with FCP. That's what most people are saying anyway. Sure, there are minor annoyances associated with learning a new app, but you also take the good along with it. I suggest you just dive right in. It may take longer at first, but you can get your speed up in time.
I have no doubt that sometime in the future Premiere will become everything that I want it to be, and at that time I can finally abandon Final Cut for good, as I wish I could do right now.
I also came from FCP, taught FCP for nearly a decade, wrote a book about FCP, help start the first FCPUG, worked at Apple on two versions of FC Studio, so I do know what you are going through. Just keep at it and keep posting here. I'll be glad to help you with any workarounds or confusion related to moving over from FCP.
Thanks,
Kevin

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How can I split or change a single track mono audio recording so it will play as if it was in stereo (dual Track)
I'm using Premiere Elements 12.

aardga
The Fill in or Fill Right effect is an effect.
Do you know how to use effects in Premiere Elements 12? Same principles.
When you are in the Premiere Elements 12 Expert workspace and have clicked on fx Effects/Audio Effects/, you should see the following. The instructions clearly state: Drag and Drop an Effect on Clip(s)
If you are a new user to Premiere Elements video editing, the Premiere Elements 12 Help PDF might be a handy reference to get started.
http://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/premiere-elements_reference.pdf
But, never hesitate to ask for help if needed.
Please let us know if you are now OK with the information that you sought.
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ATR

How do you export 4 discrete mono audio tracks with video from Adobe Premiere Pro 4/Adobe Encoder?

I've posted this question in different terms a few times and have not had an answer. I can't find the answer on the Premiere Pro support site either (which makes me think that a simple solution doesn't exist)
We use adobe premiere pro 4. We capture DVCAM tapes with 4 discrete audio channels. When we export the video using adobe encoder, the result is stereo tracks with the discrete audio channels mixed together which is completly useless to us. When I select Mono for the output settings, two channels of audio are mixed into one audio channel. Also useless.
When capturing the clip, we always use the mono timeline and modify the clips to mono. We can edit the discrete audio channels but when we export the video, the audio is mixed down.
this is the problem. Each of our 4 audio channels contain a different language of dialogue. When exported, these 4 get mixed down to 2 mixed channels blending of course the language.
Can Premiere Pro 4 export discrete mono audio channels? How do you do it?
Does version 6 have the ability to export 4 discrete mono channels?

Hi Steve,
Important info is missing from your post - what format are you wanting to export to, and for what purpose? We need to know how the exported file is intended to be used. Who's going to view it, using what gear? Is it for another editor to work with? End user viewing?
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

Encoding in CS 6 xdcam to proves including 4 mono audio tracks

I want to transcode my xdcam HD 422 clips into prores via the AME CS 6. And it seems as if I still lose my 4 audio tracks - is there a way to tell the AME to do that job right? I only can choose between mono and stereo. If mono is checked, I end up with a single mono track.
I hope there is a way, as this has been one of the urgent to do tasks.
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Philipp

From AME alone, I don't know if you can.
However, Premiere Pro now allows you the ability to set up a 4 channel export.

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Is this possible?
For some reason all my audio tracks by default are mono.
Would save time if they were stereo.

Open the New Tracks Window and select the Audio Track. When you open the "Details" disclosure triangle, you will see the Input and Output settings for the new Audio Track. Select Stereo and Logic remembers that settings as a default for any newly created Audio Track from now on.
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Just been doing some mixing and have noticed that mono tracks are 3db lower than stereo.
At first I placed a limiter on a mono audio instance (not track) set to limit at -8 and it actually limits at -11.
This is not the case with stereo tracks.
I thought it was the plugin but when I tested it out with tone I found that tone came in at the correct level... -12 on a stereo track then when you made it mono it came in 3db lower.
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If only one track shows on my audio - how can I change it to stereo? I tried copying and pasting the track but it wouldn't paste. Is there another way to do this?
Please help.
Thanks.

Or since audio is additive, if you needed it to be louder, then you can select it and Option drag to the second audio track, then do what Tom suggested and pan one to the Left and the other to the Right in the Modify tab of each track. If you don't need it to be any louder, just do what he suggested and pan it to the center.
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Duplicate and sync a mono audio track?

I just switched over from FCP7 to CS5.5 PPRO.
When I was in FCP, I used to do a OPTION/SHIFT on my Mac key board and drag the mono audio to to the next one down
and it would duplicate the audio track.
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also affect the other audio track.
Is there means of quickly doing the same in PPRO?

The first part is accomplished using the standard Copy/Paste methodology.
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