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January 17, 2019
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Mono clip in a stereo multitrack session is getting converted back to mono on export

  • January 17, 2019
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I have a Stereo Multitrack session with 3 tracks that should all be playing stereo. When I export the entire session (or just timeline selection), Track 1 is only heard in the left channel, whereas Tracks 2 and 3 are properly heard in both L and R.

What am I doing wrong or is this a bug?

Track 1 is a stereo track that contains edited clips of the left channel only of a stereo source

Track 2 is a stereo track that contains a stereo music track

Track 3 is a stereo track that contains a mono voice-over clip that was recorded in Audition.

When I play the session on the timeline, all three tracks mix to stereo and can be heard in both L and R speakers. Despite the clips on Track 1 being from a stereo source, I have only dragged the left channel from that source onto the timeline. So with no other changes to the track, the clips on Track 1 all play in both the L and R speaker equally.

All three tracks are panned to the center (default). I do have some insert effects on the tracks, but even if I remove them, it still exports the first track to the L channel only.

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance!

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ryclark
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January 17, 2019

Can you post a screen grab of what your session looks like with the emphasis on the Track headers of the first couple of

tracks including a bit of start of the clips so we can see how you have them set up?

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January 18, 2019

Yeah, let me know if there's anything else that would be helpful. As far as I can tell, nothing is paned, and the mono track plays on both the L & R channels of Track1, and is effective in reaching the L&R channels of the Master track. I just can't figure out why the export is getting all messed up!

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January 18, 2019

For reference, this is a section of what gets exported. So strange. I have also tried exporting through Adobe Media Encoder, and same issue.