Mono Audio

[Loren Simons]

So i shot a Bar Mitzvah and for the interviews, i just switched the mic to mono so it would pick up my shotgun mic plugged in AND the handheld mic as upposed to unpluging the shotgun and than plugging in the handheld to that same slot, you A1 users no what I'm talking about. SO my question is is there a way to just delete the shotgun audio track of audio, and just duplicate the handheld track, so i hear the audio from both left and right?
Thanks in advance!

 

[Loren Simons]

fixed it, but i just copied and pasted the audio and panned it to the other side, but for future reference, does anyone know if there is a way to delete just one track of audio?

 

[cyclone]

In FInal Cut Pro, unlink the tracks (in the pull down menus at the top). That way, when you click on one track and delete it in the timeline, it won't affect the other track.

 

[Alex H.]

fixed it, but i just copied and pasted the audio and panned it to the other side, but for future reference, does anyone know if there is a way to delete just one track of audio?

The best thing to do, as already mentioned, is to delete the unwanted track of audio. But copying the audio track that you want to keep, pasting it, and panning to the other side can cause some nasty issues with phase cancellation if you aren't careful.

Is there a reason you felt you needed the audio on two tracks? When dealing with mono audio sources, keep it to one track, panned center. This will keep you from having problems later, and you won't need to go through the copy/paste headache.

 

[Loren Simons]

When dealing with mono audio sources, keep it to one track, panned center. This will keep you from having problems later, and you won't need to go through the copy/paste headache.

that would make sense....hahahaha not sure why i didn't think of that. Guess i made this thing harder than it should be, thanks!