6 audio tracks nested in Sequence

[andrewhuntermaine]

I'm editing a round table discussion that was shot with three cameras and 6 audio channels (4 lapel mics and 2 booms) and multiple takes.

I've edited the project using a nested sequence for each camera, this simplifies my timeline by showing only one collective audio channel per camera. Now that the edit is approved I want to polish/balance the audio and so want to be able to edit the individual audio channels but I can't figure out how to "un-nest" them or otherwise get full channel audio clips.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Trevor_Asq]

I wouldn’t start from here!

You could select all audio in timeline, right click & ‘flatten’. But I suspect you’ll be left with just 1 mic where the nest was.

I hope I’m wrong and someone gives a better answer, but you may have a bit of overcutting to do. You can speed this up with macros, or maybe EDL or XML export, manipulation and reimport.

Maybe post a screen grab of your timeline & your multicam sequence timeline to aid diagnosis.

[Jim_Simon · Accepted solution]

You can work on the original clips.  What you do there will carry over into the nest.

[Rachel5EAF]

Yes...but how do you get to the original?