Any trick for splitting a heavily edited stereo track from multitrack project into two mono tracks?

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April 18, 2020
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I'm editing an audio interview and have been working with stereo files with interviewer on right track, subject on left track. At this stage, the edit is nearly complete, and am looking to split those pairings into mono tracks without going through manually to each of the 500-600 snippets and making them unique and extracting them, or other insanity. I need to deliver clean mono tracks to the mix.

I tried creating mono tracks and seeing if I can drag a grouping to them with a modifier key to split them the way you can extract to mono when importing from the Files list, but either I'm doing it wrong, or there is no way to do that?

I ... am really trying to deliver this today, so looking for wisdom from the Audition gurus for how I can leave all edits in place but have two nice separate mono edits! I don't have an option to bust back to clean tracks and re-edit as that could take several days!

Thanks for any and all advice!

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Richard M Knight

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If this was Premiere I would copy all the tracks, move the copies to highter tracks keeping them in sync and then add 'fill left with right' effect to one set and 'fill right with left' to the other, Im sure using the Channel Mixer effect you could do a similar thing in Audition.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

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The difficulty with that is that it won't achieve the separation that the OP desires - he doesn't want either side joined in any way.

mifgaAuthor

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I wonder if there is a route to go to Premiere and breakout tracks there.

Or got extreme and export an AAF with all things split and bring things back in, re-organize.

It is all about preparing for a mix, so some of my actual level moves are less important than building clean tracks for future work.

Matt

SteveG_AudioMasters_

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If I've read this correctly, you've done this edit in Multitrack and you have about 600 stereo clips that you want to split so that each one is two mono clips? Is that correct? So if you mixed this down, you'd have all the clips as you want them, in a stereo file, with one person on the left and the other on the right? If that's the case, all you'd have to do is split the final mixed file, isn't it?

What am I missing here?

mifgaAuthor

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I kept the stereo tracks together for the edit for convenience, but there are often things I wish I could kill on one track or the other - and wanted to build up a clean bed for each speaker in isolation.

Are there any ways to select the entire stereo track and drag it down to two separate mono tracks? so that all of the clips are still there and i can go in and move the transitions/crossfades and build up these two track separately? That's what I wanted to do and didn't realize I was trapped in a stereo track i can't pull apart.

If i bounce out a mix, then I have two tracks, but no edits. there are tons of little transitions to move, and the handles would be gone forever. 😞

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

You can copy and paste everything on a track, and that paste will include all the clips and crossfades, certainly - but no, there's no way to split the stereo if you do this. And all the other options look pretty complicated, and potentially risky, I'd say. In theory, if there aren't too many original files, it's possible to split those out into a pair of mono tracks- but then you have the problem of playing around with a lot of track re-naming to get your original edits re-populated correctly in Multitrack, and that's not a bundle of laughs - tried that before, and it's nerve-wracking.

So I'm afraid that Audition doesn't have a good answer to this at present. But the good news is that whenever I say this (not very often) somebody pops up and proves I'm wrong... so keep your fingers crossed that I've missed something!

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