Placing Audio in Multichannel Tracks

You can drag audio files and clips from DigiBase browsers, the Clip List, Windows Explorer, or Mac Finder, or from other tracks, to place them in multichannel audio tracks.

To do so, the number of channels being dragged must match the destination track format. For example, you can only drag a stereo pair or two mono clips onto a stereo audio track. Similarly, you can only place audio into an LCR track when you have selected three clips. With 5.1 tracks, you must select six mono files or clips.

 

When dragged into a multichannel track, audio files are placed from top to bottom in the exact order that they appear in the Clip List or playlist from which they came (Top to Bottom must be selected for in the Clip List menu > Timeline Drop Order). For this reason, you may want to rename audio files before dragging them, so that they are placed in the preferred order. Rename them so that sorting them By Clip Name in the Clip List results in the preferred order. (For example, with a 5.1-format track, you can rename the audio tracks so that the arrangement of the tracks corresponds to L, C, R, Ls, Rs, and LFE.)