Confirm Bug: Modify Audio Channels

[brandtryan]

See video.

1. Selected clip in project browser with 4 audio channels
2. Right-click and select Modify-->Audio channels
3. Ensure Clip Channel Format is Mono
4. Uncheck 2 of the clips
5. Click Okay
6. Drag clip into timeline area to create new timeline
7. All 4 audio clips/channels are still present

[Richard M Knight]

You may need to set this to 2, the number of tracks you want.

[brandtryan]

Same result.

[Richard M Knight]

I am not seeing your issue here, this is a timeline with the 4ch Sony EX clip both before and after modifying the audio channels. I used the same settings as you.

[Richard M Knight]

Could you Dropbox a sample of your video clips.

[brandtryan]

Click here to download file

[Richard M Knight]

On my machine your download file is 2 track stereo both in Premiere and MediaInfo

[brandtryan]

Showing my ignorance here.  It's a merged clip in PPro - but the source file remains unchanged. In the previous tutorial lesson, it has user merge a .wav file with the .mov file. 

Going beyond the call of duy here - but if you're inclined, could you merge the files in a project, and once you have the merged file - try to modify the audio channels per my original post?

[Richard M Knight]

I can confirm with a merged clip all 4 channels come over to the timeline.

[brandtryan]

This all got a bit convoluted. To clarify, after merging to create new clip, you modified the channels on the new clip and only selected two of the four available (mono), and then dragged the new clip (which presumably only has 2 channels now) into new seqauence and instead of just 2 all 4 came over?

Thank you for your patience and for your help.

[Richard M Knight · Accepted solution]

Yes

[brandtryan]

Yes - something local to my system apparently. 2 days ago I was doing this same tutorial and it worked fine. Another note - it's intermittent, but often when I right-click and select modify-->Audio Channels, the window doesn't appear. If I try again, the window appears.

BTW - right before I tried your suggestion of changing it to "2" clips, I completely uninstalled PPro rebooted, and re-installed. However, it pulled down my settings from before. I wonder if I need to reset my preferences somehow.

[brandtryan · Accepted solution]

Submitted possible defect here

[antoinev11989251]

Any news on this ?

[Post426514616x7oz]

Is there any news on this?

I'm editing a swedish television show and this is causing A LOT of trouble for me. I'm on an IMac with version 22.6.2 of premiere. Is there any old version that i can install where you know this actually still works? 

Anyone else still has this problem?

[antoinev11989251]

We are using version 15.2 to avoid most of the bugs.

[defaulta32qtdfperan]

Any news on this? I'm in v23 and it hasn't been addressed.

[CineBirdRPAS]

I am running PP2023 and can no longer modify audio channels within a sequence!

The app forces me to go to the actual bin file (not in the source monitor) and change audio channels from there. Only problem is that then changes other instances of the file I have in the sequence. i.e.: my ITV clip has separated mics on different channels. Previously I could select "Modify Audio channels" on individual shots in a timeline and set them exactly how I needed them. If I was missing a mic I could alt drag an audio clip to duplicate it then modify the channel to select the other mic, for example.i.e.: timeline track 1 would have mic 1, track 2 would have mic 2. 

Now I either make sure I edit in all possible audio channels to begin with or go back and match frame to edit them in afterwards. 

Not very time efficient.

[Renegader]

I have this same issue. A converted project from PP2022 to PP2023. I can modify the audio channels in the bin, but when I put it on the timeline, I can right click and select audio channels, but everything is greyed out in the dialog box.