Mono clip behaviour in stereo timeline track

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Trevor Asquerthian

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Mono clip behaviour in stereo timeline track

PostFri May 18, 2018 9:13 am

Sources are a mixture of stereo & mono.

Avid does not let me put mono clips into stereo timeline tracks, which is OK - I just have to have a few more timeline tracks.

Premiere does let me put mono clips into 'standard' (i.e. stereo) tracks - and centre pans the mono source to a stereo output - which is also OK. I can keep the timeline track count down.

Resolve also lets me put mono clips into stereo timeline tracks, but will only output the mono signal to the left of the stereo output. This is not much use to anyone that I can think of.

There's also no 'fill right' effect, that I can see, either. My only option (other than to have dedicated mono and stereo timeline tracks AND remember to route them correctly) is to right click on each individual mono clip and modify the attributes to be stereo and duplicate the source).

Anyone think that mono sources in stereo timeline tracks only outputting to the left side of the pair is useful to them?
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Re: Mono clip behaviour in stereo timeline track

PostFri May 18, 2018 12:04 pm

There are 3 ways that you can choose to do this:

1. You can do it the Avid way (I just have to have a few more timeline tracks.)

2. You can also change the stereo track to a mono track by right clicking on the track and change track type to>

3. You can also change the mono file to play back on a stereo track to panned centre by changing the audio clips attributs on the timeline by right clicking it. (change format and also change source channel to fix the right channel from its muted state.) I think premiere pro has this setting to.
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Re: Mono clip behaviour in stereo timeline track

PostTue Feb 04, 2020 11:15 am

+1 for the OP's assertion that the current behavior is hardly useful.
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Re: Mono clip behaviour in stereo timeline track

PostTue Feb 04, 2020 7:13 pm

No problem here dragging a mono wav file into the edit page. It creates a mono track automatically. Same if you drag it into the Fairlight page. No need to create an empty track first. Put mono sources into mono tracks not stereo ones.If you want to create a mono track in the Timeline:
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Re: Mono clip behaviour in stereo timeline track

PostTue Feb 04, 2020 7:30 pm

Creating audio tracks automatically or otherwise is not the issue the OP was describing.
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Re: Mono clip behaviour in stereo timeline track

PostTue Feb 04, 2020 7:33 pm

He's putting mono audio into a stereo track. If he puts it into a mono track it will play out of both output channels, not the left only.
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Re: Mono clip behaviour in stereo timeline track

PostTue Feb 04, 2020 7:37 pm

The OP understands that, as we all do. He's pointing out the fact that the default behavior is a compromise between the Avid approach and the Premiere one, which results in something which isn't useful: a mono clip on a stereo track playing only on the left channel is very rarely of use to anyone. As I understand it, he suggests either not allowing mono clips on stereo tracks or finding a more useful implementation. It's all in his post, really :)
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Re: Mono clip behaviour in stereo timeline track

PostTue Feb 04, 2020 7:41 pm

It might be a default, whether intentional or otherwise, but you don't have to use it and go through the hassle of changing clip attributes etc.
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