I've had numerous threads regarding how to get discrete audio channels, as you say all mono. Avid quite often interleaves the audio into the single multichannel you describe. Fortunately on my last round of L2 questions Bouke came to the rescue with QT Map. It will do exactly what you want and it saves a backup of the original audio files so if something goes sideways you can always manually cut those back in in QT Pro. In my experience it doesn't require a resave to a new self contained .mov.
I will say sometimes when I run it I end up with some audio distortion issues, to whacky to explain here, but running QT map a second time has solved the issue. I haven't been able to localize what goes south but it has happened to me several times so I usually make a copy of the original file before running QT map. I've yet to send a sample file of one of my problem files to Bouke so it is probably something to do with my system and not the app. I can't explain why most of the time it just works and occasionally I end up with audio weirdness on one or more channels at the beginning of the resulting file. When it has happened the backed up audio is still clean but I've opted to usually copy my file before running it.
I've posted it before but will again. The QT Map literally saved a live show for me a few months back when the sponsors premade ads to go in the show could not be ingested by the live productions ingest system and this was on the Universal Lot, go figure. They sent me the files and I was going to have to have our protools guy create new stems and do the whole cut them in and re export as QT Ref etc... Instead I took each file into QT map and in a minute had files the ingest server liked just fine. It also allows you to remap the audio tracks in a different order which can come in handy. Along with QT change I try to never leave home without them.
---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <bouke@...> wrote :
On Aug 1, 2016, at 19:05, Jay Mahavier jay_mahavier@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:Open a QT in QT and do a Get Info. Some QTs show multiple audio tracks with each one being mono, then some QTs show a single audio track that is Stereo or 5.1 or 7.1 or 9.1 or whatever.
If you open those QTs in QTPro and Show Movie Properties and then go to the Audio tab you can see that the one with multiple mono tracks has a bunch of separate listings for audio tracks and you can activate or deactivate different ones. But the other will just have a single audio stream that is multichannel.
Is there a way to change from multi-track to multi-channel and back and forth, without doing full on Exports? Like is there a piece of software that will let me change a setting?
The issue is coming up when doing my deliverable exports from Resolve (yes, I know this is the Avid-L, but there are some really smart people on here) and it's making the single track multi-channel kind of QT, and now I'm being asked to deliver a multi-track version, and Resolve just doesn't have the depth to have that be an option. Or it's not readily apparent to me in and of the settings.
Thank you for any insight that can be provided.
Jay
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