Split Stereo Mastering, Hows it used Options

[prologicscot]

Hi there

I got so many Qs

Essentially how does bouncing into a split stereo format work in mixdown
as opposed to interleaved stereo files??

Where & in what applications would I bounce into split stereo

Appreciate any advice

Thnx
Isaac

[banevt]

some appiications don't import interleaved files or split stereo files even though most applications will probably handle both there are instances when they wouldn't need to be converted. If you were doing a session in Logic and wanted to import files into Pro Tools you could do this without converting the files in any way if you were using the same file type in both programs. Pro Tools likes split stereo files and wouldn't ask you to convert the files before importing them. Pro Tools would still treat the split stereo files like a stereo track as long as the files were named properly. I am pretty sure that in Logic it's easier to import stereo interleaved files because Logic would just treat the split stereo files as mono files. If you wanted to play these files in iTunes or make CD's from them they would need to be stereo interleaved.