Separate Audio Track Selection Menu

So i'm working on a fitness video, Which has a dialogue audio track and a music audio track. I've made 2 audio files, one stereo mix with both music and dialogue. and another mono track with just dialogue. The point is so that people working out at home can choose between using the default music, or using their own music live playing from another source. So what i have created so far, is just a main menu, that has a play button that plays the show with the main stereo track. What i want to do, is create a sub menu with the 2 choices, "without music, or with music" and once you click them it brings you back to the main menu, where you have to click the play main movie button. I could spend a bunch of time trying to tinker around and figure this out. But if someone could just guide me in the right direction that would be fantastic.

Duplicate your "main menu" and call it "No Music Menu". Now when you go to your sub menu, have the button for "no music" target to the "No Music Menu"
Create a new track that is your "No Music Track".
On your "No Music Menu" select the Play button and change its target to your "No Music Track".

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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?))

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.
Thanks in advance for any help. This forum saves my life!

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?
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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

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...

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.

Why can't I separate audio tracks when I import clips from an sd card into FCP 7

Why Can't I separate audio tracks when I import sd card files into fcp 7?

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

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?
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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
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Adding Menue Audio Track selection and soubtitles on/off

Hi,
with some help from replies to other questions I managed to get a working DVD/BR with cool 2.0 / 5.1 sound and subtitles.
But for now I do have to select the audio track manually and also I do have to enable subtitles from the DVD/BR players menu.
So I wanted to add a DVD/BR menu where you can choose the audio track which should be played and to switch on and of subtitles.
I edited a nice PS PSD File with some buttons and they show up in Encore and I can do some "encore" editig like moving tham arrond or link to some other elements.
My question: How do I get e.g. the Button "2.0 Stereo" to select the stereo track and the button "5.1 Surround" to select the 5.1 track. An other button should switch on/off the right subtitle
Than I'd like to have a button which starts the video with the selected audio and if selected subtitle on.
At the end of the movie I like to be back in the menu.
I bet thats simple
I thought to create different timelines and add the audio/video/subtitle, but that i have a lot of timelines in all sort of combinations; e.g. video ON, 5.1 sound ON, subtitle OFF ..... video ON, 2.0 sound ON, subtitle ON etc ....
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Thanks for your posting, but there is the higlight Layer.
I opend the menue in photoshot once more and enabled the layers.
For me a button has the following different states:
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So I'd liked to indicate which audio track is enabled/selected and if subtitles are off or on.
I thought, the highlight button states are markend with (=1) & (=3) ....
BTW. in encore menue edit mode, if I click the show selected/activated Subpicture Highlight, the right layer shows up (with my √-symbol)
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Regards . Götz

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.
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Select the audio tracks in the timeline and then Modify/Stereo Pair (opt-L): this will separate the two tracks.
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Is there any quick way to do this? Nothing in the keyboard shortcuts menu that seems close to "Sleect Video Track 1", "Select Audio Track 1", etc. Is it only achieveable with a mouse? Thanks all.

I have made custom keyboard shortcuts for video and audio tracks using Toggle Track.
I use numbers 1 to 7 for Video and Shift 1-7 for Audio.
In conjunction with Mouse clicking and shift mouse clicking on tracks..does all that I need.

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.
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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?
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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 ?
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iMovie can use ONE Stereo Audio track.
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• Audacity (free from Internet) or
• GarageBand - where I can also do Audio works
BTW - to get full freedom - Use FinalCut Pro
Yours Bengt W

Core Audio Track Selection ?

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Press 'control' while clicking on the instrument or audio track you want to change. you get 2 options,
the first of which is 'reassign track object' - move across and you'll see all the options are there
available to you.

Separate Audio Tracks

I'm using logic with little knowledge of the program.
I have 1 audio track with samples, then i needed more audio tracks for more samples and vocals, however it seems that every individual audio track plays all the other audio tracks thru it at the same time.
I soloed the vocals to work on them but the samples are playing thru that track too? Why does one audio track play all audio tracks?

But what does universal track mode do exactly?
No one really knows. But it must be enabled
Well, of course someone knows. It switches the mixer's behaviour in handling stereo tracks. UTM only uses interleaved stereo files, while split stereo files are better treated without UTM. You can google it to follow some of the ongoing discussions.
However, the disabling of UTM can cause some problems, like you just experienced.
Also, if you don't mind another question, when should i use stereo tracks and when should i use mono tracks?
You should use stereo tracks for instruments (real or software) that produce a stereo sound.
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