Soundtrack Pro 5.1 export dropping levels

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Soundtrack Pro 5.1 export dropping levels

I tried searching, but can't find this anywhere exactly. One thing that seemed similar said to trash preferences or duplicate the project, or reinstall... and I don't really want to do that, but this problem makes no sense to me.

I have a 5.1 mix I'm doing, fairly complicated, just a lot of tracks, 4 submixes. I have everything how I want it, all 6 channels sounds good. When I export (I've done AIFF files, all separate mono files, and one 5.1 file, same issue) it drops the center channel considerably, but not all the way through. Maybe... 2/3 of the way though, it brings it back up to what it should be.

When I go to listen to the mix in Soundtrack after export, that's how it sounds. Simply changing the submix output to none, or any of the other ones, and then assigning it to its original submix again brings it back to where it should be. Export again, it moves levels around again.

Any idea what the issue could be?

Oh, and I've even tried assigning the offending channels to another submix that has exported fine, and same issue on export.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Sep 15, 2013 3:27 PM

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cndnbcn Author

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Sep 15, 2013 3:50 PM in response to cndnbcn

Ok. Looking at things again... I have audio from a multitrack recorder (6 channels) and some from a stereo recorder. Tracks have been selected mono, 1/2/3/4/etc and assigned to their respective tracks. It looks like all the audio having problems is from the mutlitrack recorder, and the stereo is fine. And knowing that, found a question someone asked about the same issue, but no solution.

Maybe someone has figured this out since that post (2010)?

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Sep 16, 2013 10:38 AM in response to cndnbcn

Ok, got it.

Despite picking the correct # on the track after making it mono, upon export, it just defaults to the main track (so, in this case, what it sees as the Left or Right channels, since 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are L, R, C, LFE, Ls, and Rs, respectively).

I tried editing each clip individually in the same project, but that ended up changing all of the clips with different mono tracks selected, too difficult and annoying.

Solution was to take the original 6 channel file, drop it into a new project, leave it alone, export AIFF as separate mono tracks, keep the same name, but append "-#" at the end of it, and then in the original project, as long as those new AIFF files are with the source file, you can right click the clip and hit replace with similar, and find the corresponding mono track you want to use (If I needed track 3, I picked mono track "[file name]-3".

Everything kept the same cut points, etc, so it was just an easy swap. Track levels and effects stayed the same, all exported as expected.

Thanks me!

*self five!*

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