export stereo audio for Pro Tools mix session

[Lisha Rigney]

[Jeremy Garchow]

What’s wrong with dual mono?

is that screen grab from the clip in the timeline or event?

[Lisha Rigney]

The Pro Tools audio mixer said the dual mono audio does not provide the best sound quality and that he has to do a lot of extra work on his end to turn it into stereo.

[Lisha Rigney]

The screen grab is from the clip in the timeline.

[Jeremy Garchow]

But is it a stereo mic, or two discrete channels?

Is this on camera audio or separate?

Did you trim the audio in X2Pro or are you referencing existing media?

[Scott Witthaus]

[Lisha Rigney] “”…the theme music is ok but 100% of all the clip audio is dual mono.””

As him/her why dual mono is a problem for dialogue and why he/she wants to bill extra hours to turn it into stereo. Also as him/her why the quality will suffer. I am interested in his responses.

Scott Witthaus
Visual Storyteller – FCPX, Premiere
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Doug Metz]

Each dual-mono channel would be center panned in a multi-channel mix. If the clip audio is actually stereo, but flagged as dual mono, it can cause phasing issues and frequency cancellation, which sounds bad. You’d run into this with a stereo smartphone recording or camcorder with a built-in stereo mic, or similar scenario. If it actually is dual mono (each channel a different mic, or one channel duplicated), then it shouldn’t be any kind of real problem outside a simple level adjustment. Not one you’d hear, anyway.

The screen shot shows Stereo though, so it’s a bit puzzling that the output is showing otherwise.

Doug Metz

Anode