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Assembling and Preparing Stereo Tracks on the Desktop

You can assemble imported images into a clip containing a stereo track directly on the Desktop. Do this, for example, when your left and right eye images are imported as separate clips.

You can also preview stereo material in the Player before bringing it into Action or Batch.

Note the following when working with clips containing stereo tracks on the Desktop:

- If you create a clip containing a stereo track from two mono clips, each mono clip is placed on the corresponding left and right eye layers of the stereo track. The mono clips must share the same metadata.

  The mono clips can contain multiple layers but they must have the same number of layers.

  Before you create a clip containing a stereo track, remember that you must bring stereo tracks into Batch or Action if you want to do any compositing work.

  You can now simultaneously create clips that each contain a stereo track using two source reels: one reel for your left eye sources and one reel for your right eye sources.

  See Creating and Splitting Stereo Tracks.

- You can perform many of the same Desktop editing operations on clips containing stereo tracks as on mono clips, for example, splicing clips together or replacing frames. Note that if you are working with more than one clip, both clips must contain stereo tracks.

  To identify clips containing stereo tracks on the Desktop, see Clip Information.

- You can view the left eye and right eye layers of a stereo track on the Desktop in the same way as the layers of a mono clip—with the up arrow and down arrow keys.

  To identify how stereo layers are represented on clip proxies, see Navigating Edit Sequences.

- Inside the Player, you can select a mode, as specified for your broadcast monitor preferences, for previewing and broadcasting stereo material.

  See Comparing Tracks and Layers.

  NoteTo set broadcast monitor preferences, see Broadcast Stereo.
- If you realize that you need to go into a Desktop module other than Action or Batch, you can split the clip containing the stereo track into two mono clips. You can always recreate the stereo track after you process. You may also need to split a stereo track back into left eye and right eye images in order to export them.

  To split a clip containing a stereo track into two mono clips, see Creating and Splitting Stereo Tracks.

- You can bring a clip containing a stereo track into the Player timeline to edit the left and right eye layers.

  See Editing Stereo Tracks.