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October 22, 2018
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Isolating Voices from a Six Channel Audio Video

  • October 22, 2018
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Hi all,

I'm slowly transitioning from Vegas to Premiere, and so far am finding it quite intuitive save for a couple of functions I have in Vegas that I don't quite know how to do in Adobe. Currently, I'm trying to figure out how to isolate the vocals from other background noise in Premiere.

I have a six channel audio mp4 file. In Vegas, as soon as I plop it in the timeline, all six channels are very clearly visible and separate form each other, as shown in this screencap.

One of the channels is predominantly vocals. It isn't 100% perfect, but simply ungrouping all the channels deleting every channel except for the third (the vocal heavy track) removes pretty much 95% of everything except vocals. Loading the same file into Premiere, I see only one audio track containing all the vocals and background sounds, and I really don't have a clue how to go around separating them.

Does Premiere have the ability to do this, or something similar to it? There is the alternative of isolating the sound in Vegas first but as the clip is long I would prefer not to have to render it multiple times.

Cheers,

Lawrence

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Correct answer Richard M Knight

Before adding the clip to the timeline right click on the clip in the project panel and select 'modify Audio Channels' You are then given the option to change the file to separate mono clips.

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Richard M KnightCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
October 22, 2018

Before adding the clip to the timeline right click on the clip in the project panel and select 'modify Audio Channels' You are then given the option to change the file to separate mono clips.

kaeneusAuthor
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October 22, 2018

Thank you! I actually figured it out myself not five minutes before you responded, how's that for a coincidence? Thanks for your reply