FS7: Any tricks or tutorials to not have 8 tracks of channels on the timeline in Premiere?
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Doug Jensen
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There's nothing you can do onboard the camera to reduce the number of channels but it is easy to strip off unwanted channels in Premiere before you begin editing. Once you have loaded all the clips in a bin, select them all, right-click on one of them and choose “Modify > Audio Channels.” This then brings up a dialog box where you can configure the audio channels however you want. You can even strip off all the audtio if you want to. And it's non-destructive so you can always restore them if necessary.
EidolonFilms
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You can also change the setting in Premiere for how it will import the audio in the first place in the preferences. So you could have it all import with just two mono tracks for instance ( if you have no need for the on camera mic channels). This can then also be changed later with the same method Doug posted.
I was just going to start a new thread with the same question. Great info, thanks!
What confuses me is that with all of my other cameras I've worked with I always get one audiotrack, and nothing else. With my FS7, not only do I get many empty tracks but also two tracks with audio. If I turn one of them off, the audio gets lower but I still have audio both in the left and right speaker so nothing changes there.
So, can I disable all the tracks including one of the "working" ones or do I lose quality if I only use one of the two audiotracks?
Why not use both you might ask? Well, it's a pain in the butt to adjust two tracks all the time and keeping it all together without missing one track.
What confuses me is that with all of my other cameras I've worked with I always get one audiotrack, and nothing else. With my FS7, not only do I get many empty tracks but also two tracks with audio. If I turn one of them off, the audio gets lower but I still have audio both in the left and right speaker so nothing changes there.
So, can I disable all the tracks including one of the "working" ones or do I lose quality if I only use one of the two audiotracks?
Why not use both you might ask? Well, it's a pain in the butt to adjust two tracks all the time and keeping it all together without missing one track.
Ben Scott
Veteran
It's absurd that this still has to be done. It doesn't matter if it's only a couple of clicks. It's a couple of clicks no other camera requires and it confuses the hell out of people not used to working with FS7 footage, especially if they have a mixed format timeline. It should be settable in the camera menus.
EidolonFilms
Well-known member
See my previous answer of what to do in Premiere. You can have it import only the first two audio tracks if you'd like. In camera you can set the levels for tracks 3 and 4 (which are the onboard mic) but you can't remove them from the file.
What confuses me is that with all of my other cameras I've worked with I always get one audiotrack, and nothing else. With my FS7, not only do I get many empty tracks but also two tracks with audio. If I turn one of them off, the audio gets lower but I still have audio both in the left and right speaker so nothing changes there.
At the mo, you can assign up to 4 audio channels on an FS7. It looks like the XAVC wrapper allows up to 8 - which is cool - but not yet implemented anywhere, AFAIK.
Each channel you use can be panned left or right.
If you configure them as multi-mono, each track plays centrally to both left and right - channel 1 and channel 2.
Turn one of them off, the other is still configured to be central, so it plays on both output channels.
So, can I disable all the tracks including one of the "working" ones or do I lose quality if I only use one of the two audiotracks?
Yes, you disable and re-enable. It's non-destructive. You don't lose quality - you just lose the track you've disabled. If that has identical signal to the enabled track, you just lose gain.