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Dan7777
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May 24, 2019
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All the stereo track shows in mono on my multitrack project

  • May 24, 2019
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Hi I imported an .xml project in audition and started working at the project. I realized that some clips should be in stereo but its sounds in mono. So I created all news stereo track and replaced the old ones (that were mono by default), but this didn't solved the problem.

Now if from the multitrack project I doulbe click on the clip (the one that sounds mono but I repat it's a real stereo one proof is if I open the file with an external audio player) I see this:

as you can see Audition recognise it's stereo, the problem is that one channel is grayed out by default for the stereo clips I have in my project.

how to solve this problem please?

I'm on a project for a indy documentary and I'm working by a month it's very important for me to fix this issue.

thx so much,

Dan

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      SenekerIsMe
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      July 31, 2019

      I noticed this post was never solved and I ran into the same issue from a Resolve XML.  So I wanted to post an unusual workaround I've found where you don't have to manually drag and replace the files.  And if anyone else finds a better solution for this, I'd love to hear it.

      Before you import your XML, open it up in a simple text editor (Notepad or Textedit depending on Mac or PC), then ctrl+F (cmd+F on Mac) for:

      <trackindex>1<trackindex>

      Change the "1" to literally anything else besides 1 or 2.  You can do a "Find & Replace" search and make it quick by replacing all <trackindex>1<trackindex> with <trackindex>3<trackindex> or something.

      Then save the XML and import it into Audition.  The track will appear as stereo again, however you'll need to create a new stereo track and drop the audio down to it for the stereo part to work, since it creates a mono track by default.

      Now the last weird thing, when you double click the audio track to modify it, both channels will appear disabled, however when you double-click the source file under Files and modify it from there, your changes will save.

      Let me know if there are any other solves for this!

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        JKillion
        Participant
        June 18, 2020

        Thank you SenekerlsMe.  In a million years I never would have figured that out and it seems to work. I was trying out Davinci as an NLE for this project and after this experience I can't kick it to the curb quickly enough and get back to Premiere.  Thanks again!

        SteveG_AudioMasters_
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        SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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        May 24, 2019

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          Dan7777Author
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          May 24, 2019

          thx you very so much for help I really appreciated it. unfortunately I tryed but it didn't works, if I try to click on that button nothing happends. everyiting remains grayed out.

          SteveG_AudioMasters_
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          SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
          Community Expert
          May 25, 2019

          Try the keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl + Shift + B should enable all channels. You can control individual channels like this as well; Ctrl + Shift + L and Ctrl + Shift + R will toggle either channel, in just the same way that Ctrl + Shift + B will toggle both of them. Or if you have a multichannel file, all of them.

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