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silvershanks
Inspiring
July 8, 2017
Question

Add keyframes simultaniously to linked, multi-track audio?

  • July 8, 2017
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Premiere pro is such an amazing upgrade from Final Cut 7 in almost every possible way, but...

All synced footage that comes off movie sets contains bundles of several mono tracks, i almost always have 4-8 tracks of synced sound per clip.  Is there no way to single click the pen tool on linked, multi-track audio and have a keyframe add to each track?  I been searching for a few hours and have been coming up with zero.  Am I missing something simple? 

Yes there are several workarounds, I've been reading a few solutions, but none of them simplify the process of quickly changing levels of multi-track audio on-the-fly from the timeline.  Obviously, I can make a cut and a transition, but just in terms of speed, that's about 3 extra steps.

I'm really surprised that premiere does not seem to be able to do this, they have the pen tool, it's so close to being perfect!!  Is there something I don't know about yet, some kind of easy audio nesting or something, where you can apply one keyframe and have it effect multiple tracks?

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    excited_Genie16B8
    Legend
    July 9, 2017

    Is there no way to single click the pen tool on linked, multi-track audio

    Your question is a bit deceptive.  From Premiere Pro's viewpoint, you don't have multi-track audio, you have multiple mono tracks.  Those are two different things.  Multitrack audio is a single file with multiple channels, and will be placed on a single track in PP.  You''e got multiple files with one channel each, and they appear on multiple tracks.

    I don't believe you can add keyframes with the pen tool to multiple tracks simultaneously.

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    Meg The Dog
    Inspiring
    July 8, 2017

    Add a submix track to the sequence, route the multitrack audio to it via the track mixer, keyframe the submix track to adjust all levels simultaneously.

    MtD

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      silvershanksAuthor
      Inspiring
      July 8, 2017

      Thanks, i haven't got to anything called a submix track yet in the tutorials i'm going through.  I'm still learning.  I'll keep any eye out.  Does this process your suggesting make it simple to adjust levels quickly on the fly, right from the timeline?

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      Meg The Dog
      Inspiring
      July 8, 2017

      Yes, it allows you to control the level of all the sources routed to it/through it on the timeline via keyframes.

      MtD

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