why a mono audio track looks like stereo in the audio clip mixer ?

[fradob]

It doesn't make any sense to me that when I am working with mono tracks, the signal meters in both audio clip mixer and audio track mixer are stereo. It is extremley confusing and useless. And very unprofessional. Obviosuly AVID doesn't work that way and obviously no DAW (logic audio, pro tools, digital performer ...) works that way either

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[Richard M Knight]

Is this a Premiere question? If it is there are various options for selecting track type, just use the ones that work best for you.

There are options in the preferences which lets you chose which track type is used for each type of file.

[Trevor_Asq]

I've used Avid for a loooong time. Adobe's audio implementatio, for the most part, is far stronger.

If you want to replicate Avid pre stereo tracks then make a timeline preset with tracks mono, panNed alternately left/right. Then set audio settings to set tracks to mono in imported clips.

But the standard tracks you are using are generally better, in my experienc.

[fradob]

Thanks Trevor, no I don't want to replicate AVID, also as you know in AVID you can chose alternate pan or centered so ...

Yeah, I kinda like the clip mixer + track mixer myself, and to have AUX tracks is awesome

I hope Adobe starts working on better AFFs for audio though.

[Trevor_Asq]

The Avid alternate left/right and centred would be equivalent to panning in clip mixer, rather than track mixer. And using that setting in Avid, before very recent releases, can screw up sequences in shared environment.

I haven't done AAF myself from Prem but what problems are you having? I know if you mix mono and stereo clips in the same timeline track it will split those out to seperate tracks in the AAF but that makes sense to me.

Not having head/tail fade- now that is annoying!

[fradob]

Yes I know all that thanks.

Pro tools has a hard time reading premiere AAFs. No fades, no handles, no automation ... nothing.

I had to use Audition as middle step .... That's really annoying and unprofessional ... I wrote to feature request about that ... we'll see.

[Trevor_Asq]

To answer the subject line question - it looks stereo because it is in a stereo track and panned off centre.

it won't sound stereo, just sound like it's mono pulling to one side.