You can mute the side tracks (and other tracks you don't need for editorial) and just cut with the mid - as long as the side come along for the ride they can be sorted at the mix stage.
Always worth having them organised though (i.e. if the mid is on timeline A5 then the corresponding side is in sync on A6.)
Or talk to your mixer - they may well be happy for you to only use the mids and let them reconform to the location sound at the track lay stage.
Processing M/S within the Avid is not something I've done - I suspect that the old tricks still work though (which involve phase inverting the S and adding to the M to derive L, add S to M to derive right and centre pan M for the middle). Not sure you can achieve that with RTAS though and thus you will need to render audiosuite plug-ins to achieve it.
If there are RTAS plug-ins to do the decode you would be able to do the offline in stereo without baking in the width.
I know that back when the BBC used to record everything MS (and we were in linear suites with 2 track BetaSP to master to) we just used the M for the most part - the S was a pain to deal with and mostly just muddied the location sound ;-)
hth
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "jaclynlee71" <production@...> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> The music documentary I'm working on had audio recorded independently of the camera. There were up to seven tracks recorded at one time. I've autosync'd these tracks to the camera's V1, A1 and A2 tracks.
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> I've never had to deal with m/s audio before, and I wanted to know if I needed to process the side/stereo track before we start editing with it, or if this is something that we can do farther down the line (ie later in the offline or during the mix session)? The sound recordist is in China, so there is a bit of a language barrier.
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> If I'm posting in the wrong section, let me know. But if anyone's had experience with this, that would be great.
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> Thanks,
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> Jaclyn Lee
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