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cessers
Inspiring
March 28, 2017
Question

Side-chain Channel Map in Premiere Pro?

  • March 28, 2017
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I've searched without luck for an explanation of the "Side-Chain In:" option in the channel map of the Dynamics Processing dialog in Premiere Pro. Like so many, I am hoping to duck some audio within Premiere without using Audition. So can anyone tell me what the Side-Chain option, shown above, is for and how to make use of it?

Thanks!

Charlie Essers

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conlanpatrek
Participant
July 15, 2023

I've also been trying to figure this out in 2023. Still can't seem to make sense of it. Any wisdom from the last 6 years?

R Neil Haugen
Legend
July 15, 2023

Does the ducking in the Essential Sound Panel not fill your needs?

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
conlanpatrek
Participant
July 15, 2023

Fair question. So I'm working with audio tracks that are 5 hours long. Even on a powerful pc the "generating keyframes" step takes a long time (> 10 min in my case) to complete and yielded... Mixed results. Plus all the extra keyframes makes managing this track a huge pita. If I could get the sidechain compression to work all of these issues go away, but I can't find any docs on channel remapping that explain why this particular effect seems to half support sidechaining

Participant
July 24, 2017

Multiple months later, is there anything new to report?

cessers
cessersAuthor
Inspiring
November 28, 2018

Nope. :::sadface:::

silverrush540
Participant
April 5, 2017

Figure it out? Would love to avoid Audition as well!

cessers
cessersAuthor
Inspiring
April 5, 2017

No. I'm rather disappointed in the response! :/

Legend
March 29, 2017

This is not a third-party plug in?

cessers
cessersAuthor
Inspiring
March 29, 2017

No, regular "Dynamics Processing" insert.