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Final Cut Pro – Creating Split Track Audio

Audio Output

If you need to create split track audio where, say, dialog is on the odd track and music is on the even track, Final Cut makes it easy – if you know where to look. Here’s how:

1. Open the Sequence you want to change.
2. Choose Sequence > Settings > Audio Output
3. From the pop-up menu, select the number of tracks you need to output.
4. Set each track to Dual Mono, which pans both tracks center, as opposed to the default setting of Stereo. (By the way, the gain reduction on each track of -3 dB is appropriate and should be left alone.)

This can be set as a preference or customized for each sequence. Preference settings are set in User Preferences > Audio Outputs. The process is the same.

[See tomorrow's tip for how to assign tracks to an output.]