create proxy audio snafu

[paull94513985]

Hello,

I shoot on a sony fs7 which creates 8 channels of audio. When I ingest my footage into premiere everything is fine with all audio channels being seperate. However when I create proxies in premiere all audio channels are jammed into audio channel one. That's eight channels of audio on one audio channel, super frustrating. How do I fix this problem?

Thank you

[Mike Dziennik]

Are you using the Built in Ingest presets or one of your own? Which did you use and did you create the proxies by right-clicking on clips and choosing 'Create Proxies'?

[paull94513985]

I have used a custom created proxy with watermark and the built in create proxies provided, the results are the same.

[Michael Grenadier]

I found it impossible to make proxies from fs7 material and is my wont, I spent a great deal of time trying to solve the issue without any succes using the create proxy workflow from within premiere.  .  I never had more than 1 or 2 channels of audio on the files so I just used AME to transcode to my proxy format with 2 channels of audio.  I then unlinked the camera original and relinked to the "proxy" format files I'd exported.  When I was finished editing, I just relinked to the camera original.  Not as elegant as the built in proxy workflow, but worked just fine.  I imagine you could create a format with a proxy format like quicktime prores proxy or prores lt with 8 channels of audio if you need all 8 channels and use my workflow...

[Michael Grenadier]

and always test your workflow for one or 2 files before spending alot of time doing major transcoding...

[paull94513985]

That seems like a workable sollution. It's to bad that we have to do the extra steps but editing with proxies is definately the way to go...thanks

[Michael Grenadier]

not sure we can blame adobe for this.  there may be something proprietary that Sony's has used.   Have always wondered if there's a way to set up the camera so there are only 2 audio tracks but not sure if it would make a difference.  

[Sami Succar]

You need to create a custom ingest preset using Media Encoder. Check this gif I created to show you how to do that.

 

[paull94513985]

Thank you for the tutorial, I wish I could pause and rewind.

[Sami Succar]

Save the gif and drop in Premiere for that.