Sony FX6 and FX9 Proxy Export still messes up the 8 channels of audio?

[JimmyMcV]

I just shot a piece with the FX6 and FX9 and wanted to start editing today. I thought I could simply create proxies from my 4k material and dig in. Not the case. I'm using Adobe Premiere and there seems to be a bug where the proxy export creates proxies that mess up the 8 channels of Sony audio (btw, I need to learn how to shoot so it's just 4 channels).

I cannot find a workaround besides RE-ENCODING all the footage. That's terrible. If anyone has another solution let me know.

But this helpful YT video from this past August says this is the way to do it - I'm on Windows, but following this video, I guess I'll just transcode everything to Apple ProRes 422 and create proxies from those files. My first test worked. The audio was fine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QINuj5EZS0Y

But this is going to take up so much extra space on my drives. Ugh!

Does anyone have a way to avoid this???

[MisterAdvent]

Just learned this.  See if  it works for you, and if it works on the FX9

On the FX6, switch ON "Proxy Record" and let it record its' MP4 file in the Sub folder. You should see 2 channels on that. But then look at the MXF file. Here, it now has 4 channels instead of 8.

Then turn OFF Proxy Record.  For me, the MXF now has only 4 tracks, and it keeps that even when shifting recording modes.

Does that work for you???