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  • centering audio??please help

    Posted by Al Kohout on February 14, 2007 at 5:06 am

    I have captured audio from a camera where my left channel is silent and my right channel is good.. How do I make the entire audio track channel be what is form the left channel? (like pan center so the left is actually on both the left and right)

    seems like there should be a tool..

    Help

    Al

    Mark Anderson replied 9 years, 10 months ago 5 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Vince Becquiot

    February 14, 2007 at 5:29 am

    Use the fill left effect.

    Vince

  • Pat Mcgowan

    February 14, 2007 at 5:02 pm

    This has got to be one of the most counter-intuitive things about Premiere Pro. As a long time audio post guy, I scratch my head every time I need to handle audio in Premiere (or FCP for that matter). These guys should go take a look at the very first non-linear machines, which were audio-post devices. All the operational protocols were sorted out way back in the 80s for goodness sake. Why a new (and not particularly bright or effective) paradigm for sound had to be implemented in PPro is confounding to say the least.

  • Vince Becquiot

    February 14, 2007 at 6:59 pm

    I agree, it’s different from the real world, but I guess we could excuse it as being a software version. Once you are used to it, the mixer does its job pretty darn well and effectively, unless you are referring to features or workflow I’m not using. Of course, an ability to hook a digital mixer to PP(3?) would solve all that…

    Vince

  • Al Kohout

    February 15, 2007 at 5:46 pm

    Im sorry.,Maybe I mis-stetd my question.

    There is audio, but very low on the left chanenel..the right channel is fine..

    how do I REPALCE the left channel audio with the SAME audio that is on the right channel?

    I do not wish to copy and paste the audio track..if possible..

    I need a quick answer please

    AL

  • Vince Becquiot

    February 15, 2007 at 6:26 pm

    Have you started editing yet? If not, from the project window, choose your video/video clip(s), then go to Clip > Audio > Break out to mono options > Break out to mono. Just drag the right channel below the last track in the timeline and that will create a new mono track.

    Vince

  • Harry Hanbury

    August 15, 2011 at 11:14 pm

    Wow, that’s a pretty lame way to do it. In FCP you just use the keyboard shortcut command-. and the audio pans center. I hope Adobe improves this.

  • Mark Anderson

    July 2, 2016 at 4:56 pm

    Vincent, great tip on the fill left effect. I’m working on a project and your tip is just what I was looking for. Thank you!

    For those folks who are looking for this effect, it can be found under Audio Effects, and you have 2 options to fill left channel with right, and right channel with left, essentially making your audio mono. Super easy to use.

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