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You decide how Premiere interprets the audio yourself, so I have no idea how your Premiere Pro interprets audio. You'll have the answer in your Timeline preferences.
So does Premiere just not allow multichannel exports with several pans then.
It can export multi-track audio. You don't have much control over how video player software interprets these tracks, and how they're panned. A broadcaster may want 8 tracks, where the first two are stereo, and the rest are mono. When they use it, they will ha
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Hey!
Thank you for the quick response. 
As you can see this is set to Multichannel, 4 Tracks, Audio 1 / Audio 2 are set to 1 & 2, and 3 / 4 are set to 3 & 4. 1 & 3 and 2 & 4 are panned left and right respectively.
This works perfectly. In Premiere I get the sound from 1 on the left and from 2 on the right and so on.
I export with this:
However when I listen to the file or import it again in Premiere now the channels are no longer pannend left / right. They are all playing both left and right. It seems like Premiere is not saving this information on export or is exporting it as both left and right channels.
I tried it without the panning, by just using a stereo file and muting the left or right channel respectively. This works if you export only one channel (I get perfect audio only left and not right), but as soon as several channels are involved, the information seems lost and I get a file where every channel is now both left or right, even though it was working perfectly in Premiere like it was intended.
Thank you!
As a test on your imported file modify your audio channels, as below, in the project panel and then make a sequence from this modified clip.
You decide how Premiere interprets the audio yourself, so I have no idea how your Premiere Pro interprets audio. You'll have the answer in your Timeline preferences.
So does Premiere just not allow multichannel exports with several pans then.
It can export multi-track audio. You don't have much control over how video player software interprets these tracks, and how they're panned. A broadcaster may want 8 tracks, where the first two are stereo, and the rest are mono. When they use it, they will have their software set up to pan some tracks to the center and some to left or right.
Premiere itself will interpret them as mono by default if you re-import the files, but you can change this, and you can also pan them any way you want. But if you want the audio to be panned in a certain way when you edit or play the timeline, you will have to have a sequence set up correctly, with Multi-channel output, not stereo or 5.1, and all the tracks must be routed correctly. If you have this, you can just drop the file in the sequence and hit Play.
Remember: All this is just metadata. In the end they are all just tracks of audio. All of them are the same!
A stereo pair is just two mono tracks tagged in the metadata as stereo. Because of this metadata tag, most players know what to do with them, and will pan them left and right. The panning of multi-track audio can only be tagged in the MOV container. See screen shot of Audio tab in Export Settings.
That doesn't mean other formats won't work. If the playback software is set up accordingly, everything will be panned correctly. They're all just audio tracks, anyway. But that's not something you can do when you export, it's something they do in their software.
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