7 Replies Latest reply: May 16, 2011 1:50 PM by shooternz

I want to combine the four audio channels of my p2 mxf files

Andy Bay May 16, 2011 12:03 PM

Hi!

I remember reading somewhere on the web that it should be possible to combine all four audio channels from a panasonic p2 clip in Premiere and handle them as a single stereo clip.

I tried to follow the tutorial I found on creative cow, but the procedure seems to have changed since cs3 (the tutorial uses cs3).

Then I read in the CS5 help that I should right click on a clip in the project window and select "modify" --> "audio channels". When I do exactly that, all the options are greyed out and I cant change my track format. I include a screenshot of the situation:

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Colin Brougham May 16, 2011 12:08 PM (in response to Andy Bay)

It will only work if you haven't used the clip(s) yet in a sequence; judging by the fact that the options are grayed out, I suspect that is the case. How far along in your edit are you?
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Andy Bay May 16, 2011 12:45 PM (in response to Colin Brougham)

You are right, this seems to be the reason. Damn, let's hope on day Premiere is smart enough to be able to do that also with files already in the timeline.

I've put about 10 work hours into my edit now so I would want to start over :S
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Colin Brougham May 16, 2011 12:53 PM (in response to Andy Bay)

let's hope on day Premiere is smart enough to be able to do that also with files already in the timeline.

Well, it's not a question of Premiere being "smart" enough, so much as it is impossible without some other functionality. Remember, Premiere has specific audio track formats for mono, stereo, and 5.1 audio; your source tracks have to go into a matching sequence track. If you take two mono tracks and tell Premiere that they are actually the left and right channels of a stereo track, and those mono tracks are already in use, how would it know where to put the remapped track? That could get really messy, really fast.

Is there a particular issue you're trying to work with or around? There may be another solution or approach, if so. Or was this merely for the convenience?
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Andy Bay May 16, 2011 1:35 PM (in response to Colin Brougham)

The way I see it is that a smart function would simply automatically create a new stereo track and place the combined mono channels on that one. I don't see why it should get messy.

This situation is just for convenience: I would like to get rid of the 4 mono tracks and replace them with one stereo track so that I have more vertical space on my timeline.
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shooternz May 16, 2011 1:42 PM (in response to Andy Bay)

Not sure why you want the 4 tracks. Two of them are kind of "redundant tracks" and serve no purpose I can determine.

I always mapped my P2 media as Stereo and did not select TKs 3/4 in the mapping.
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Andy Bay May 16, 2011 1:47 PM (in response to shooternz)

Shooterz, I don't want the 4 tracks. What you described is exactly what I want, the only problem is I can't do that anymore since I already started editing (clips are used on a timeline).
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shooternz May 16, 2011 1:50 PM (in response to Andy Bay)

I wonder what happens if you open a new (empty sequence) then do the remapping on the source clips

..maybe ....then copy and paste all of the original clips from the original sequence.
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