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Understanding the types of audio tracks

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Understanding the types of audio tracks

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- Imagine you recorded an interview with your video camera and have different microphones going to different audio sources. It would be difficult for you to edit these clips seperately if they show up together in the timeline as a stereo clip. So you may want to separate both of these channels to tell Premiere how you would like for it to handle these files. We need to go to the preferences panel. So let's go ahead and open the preferences panel simply by clicking Premiere Pro CC, preferences, and now we're going to go to audio. On a Windows system the preferences are under the edit menu. In here, you see the default audio tracks for Mono Media Use File, for Stereo Use File, for 5.1 Media Use File, and for Multichannel, also Use File. So let's go ahead and change the Stereo and the Mono media to just use Mono and Mono. What this means is that next time i bring into the project panel, a file that contains stereo audio, Premiere is going to treat each one of the channels as separate…

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