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January 24, 2023
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The ability to assign audio tracks to individual channels NOT to pairs of channels then pan

  • January 24, 2023
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In avid you can easily assign each track to a specific channel.
In premiere you have to assign each track to a pair of channels then pan that ENTIRE TRACK to select which of the two channels it goes to. It seems like an extremely dumb and messy way of selecting a channel for a track. We also need to be able to change those channels from mono to stereo.

This is all pretty catastrophic when you have strange TV broadcast specs that ask for multiple full stereo mix channels as well as channels for M+E and M+E plus interviews and M but no E etc all in the same export.

As well as (or in place of) this feature please allow us to assign submixes to channels, send the right tracks to the submix and then assign the submix to a channel and you bypass the whole operation of assigning every track to a channel.

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cmdv
Known Participant
March 17, 2023

This please!! I am not an editor but deal with video and audio files. Sometimes I need to swap out the original English audio track for a dubbed one and it seems like something that should be easy but if it's got discrete multichannel audio (like 5.1 on 6 individual tracks) then it becomes stupidly complicated. And what is exported if I assign to pairs and pan doesn't seem to exactly match what went in (the waveforms look ever so slightly different).

 

It'd be nice if there was an easy way to just assign an individual audio track instead of pairing only. Premiere is professional grade software and it seems weird that it assumes everyone uses stereo pairs all the time and doesn't take into account actual professional requirements - broadcasters/distribution do often ask for discrete audio tracks.