CrackerJackFlash wrote:Also, what causes the track to load up as Stereo b(or mono) to begin with? I don't recall setting either mono or stereo at the start of the project, but there's both in my initial screengrab so I'm assuming Davinci choose based on the clip's needs?
Scroll back up to Charles' User Preferences screenshot (third post in this thread) to see how your preferences determine initial track type.
As for the additional track, yes, when you drag a clip down into an empty timeline area, below your existing track(s), then Resolve will create new timeline tracks as necessary that are based automatically on the source's Clip Attributes... so a 1 channel source clip will cause 1 new 'mono' timeline track to be created, a 2 channel clip will cause
either 1 'stereo' track
or 2 mono tracks to be created,
depending on whether the Clip Attributes for the source clip define it as being stereo or dual mono.
If you're unsure about all this, take some time to open the Clip Attributes tab for your source material and switch to the Audio tab. You have a lot of flexibility in there to define/redefine how you want Resolve to handle that clip's audio eg if you have a single channel source such as your H5 recording, and you want to be able to use it in a stereo track and have it automatically play in both channels, then you can simply add an additional channel and map 'Embedded Channel 1' audio to both.
Cheers
Andy
Let's have a return to the glory days, when press releases for new versions included text like "...with over 300 new features and improvements that professional editors and colorists have asked for."