Need help setting up, adjusting and exporting 6 mono channels. These are various actors and boom mic on feature film. I need to do some basic level adjustments per channel and export properly so each mono channel opens on its own track in Premiere.
The multi-track templates seem to require me adding each channel manually and am worried about sync issues. Am I doing it wrong?
Thanks everyone
Bretacious2 wrote
Hi Steve
Yes, 6 channel BWF. I see them as separate channels in Audition and just need to tweak levels on certain channels. Saving each one separately will be incredibly time-consuming with so many takes.
It's actually pretty quick - I do it with 8-channel files frequently. Even with a half-hour take, it's only a few seconds to split them out. But...
I thought Audition has a way to import all channels together into multichannel session on their own individual tracks so I can do this, then save them all at once either as another 6 channel file or Audition splits them out for me.
No, I'm afraid that's something it doesn't do at present - it will certainly open the BWF, but it will open it as what it is - a multichannel file and it won't give you any sensible options for dealing with it like that.
Fortunately, if it's only levels you want to tweak, there's a simple and effective way around this in Waveform view. Open the BWF, and all of the channels will be displayed, but at the RHS of each track there's a 'mute' button. If you mute all the channels except the one you want to work on, you can make level changes to it that won't affect the rest of the channels. Do the same thing with any other channel you want, and you can have individual level changes without splitting the file at all.
Now I'm not going to claim for one moment that this is necessarily ideal - but this whole area is being worked on, so it may not be like this forever...
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