Creating a Quick Action to Remove Additional Audio Tracks

This guide assumes FFmpeg is already installed. If you need to install FFmpeg, follow the guide here

• Download the zip file with the Automator Actions below, and select which one you'd like to install:

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Remove Additional Tracks.zip

archive

• Check where FFmpeg was installed by copying and pasting the command below into terminal, then hitting enter

which ffmpeg

• Copy the output

• Right click on workflow you'd like to install, and click open with Automator

• Replace “[FFMPEG PATH HERE]” with the output from “which ffmpeg”. The line should look like

    /opt/local/bin/ffmpeg -i $1 -af channelmap=0 -b:a 128k -map 0:v -map 0:a -y $o

• Save the workflow

• Double click the workflow to install it

• Right click on a .mov, then hover over “Quick Actions” then “Remove Additional Tracks (Track X Remain)”

• The file will be copied, and all tracks except the first one will be removed