I'm trying to edit footage shot on my iPhone 15 Pro Max in FCP.
I need to be able to edit each stereo track individually, but cannot find a way of seeing both tracks in the timeline. 🤬
What am I missing / doing wrong?
Thanks.
Mac mini (M2, 2023)
If it truly is a stereo recording then, after you've selected Dual Mono, if you uncheck the bottom one you'll hear just the left channel and uncheck the top one (and check the bottom one) you'll hear the right channel. They'll come through in the centre - if you wish to move them left or right you'll need two copies of the file on the timeline (one above the other) and pan them as you require.
If it truly is a stereo recording then, after you've selected Dual Mono, if you uncheck the bottom one you'll hear just the left channel and uncheck the top one (and check the bottom one) you'll hear the right channel. They'll come through in the centre - if you wish to move them left or right you'll need two copies of the file on the timeline (one above the other) and pan them as you require.
Select the clip and in the Audio Inspector in Audio Configuration select the audio. Use the drop down triangle to change from stereo to dual mono.
Stereo channels are paired, you can't separate them.
Making dual mono channels, as Tom said, then each panned full left and right respectively, from a true stereo recording, will let you manipulate each separately.
But if the original was recorded with just one mic, you have mono, no matter how many channels you have, or what you do to them.
Thanks Tom, but doesn't that just give me two mono channels, when what I'm after is separate left and right?
That's what my ears are telling me!
Thanks guys, that all worked!
🥂
View stereo channels in FCP?
