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Break all stereo tracks into mono tracks

Adobe Premiere Pro can automatically break out individual stereo and surround channels to discrete monaural clips as each clip is captured or imported.

  1. Choose Edit > Preferences > Audio (Windows) or Premiere Pro > Preferences > Audio (Mac OS).
  2. In the Source Channel Mapping area, choose Mono from the Default Track Format menu.
  3. Click OK.