How to adjust/export multiple mono channels

[Bretacious2]

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

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

What form are these 6 channels in? Are we talking about a 6-channel broadcast wav file, or some other arrangement?

If it's a 6-channel BWAV, then all you have to do is open it in Waveform view and go to Edit>Extract Channels to Mono Files and it will do it for you in one hit; all you have to do is save each one separately.

[Bretacious2]

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.

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.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Accepted solution]

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...

[Bretacious2]

Thanks for your help.

That works well and am deep into correcting more files than I can count!

Bret