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funky audio – panning after export
Before I started my job, the producer and director edited many 1-3 minute videos. To prep for DVD, they created a large string out containing all the videos. Then I guess they tossed all the original projects and kept this big string out as their master. (not a good idea IMO)
Well now they want this large string out broken up into individual videos. The problem is that the audio is all funky. The music pans left and right while the VO remains centered. At first I thought maybe they weren’t paying attention to their audio while they were editing, but 23 videos have this problem. I don’t think it was due to negligence. Does anyone know what they could have done during their export to cause this? Since this large string out is there master, is the only solution to re-edit all these videos?
Here is a sample (if I uploaded it properly):
Thank you
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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I have asked them, and the audio is not supposed to sound like that.
The audio also sounds the same in FCP, Soundtrack Pro, and Quicktime player.
I guess this will require re-editing. It’s so weird how these videos exported though. I’ve never seen this before. Some are even wonkier than the example I provided.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
http://www.robgrauert.com
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I don’t know how audio could be panned like that in FCP. Can you check the original music files?
That sort of panning sounds like an auto panner plugin which may have been done in the original recordings. If you pan the stereo image into mono it will stop the effect but may make the music levels surge slightly depending on whether the panning was equal energy or not.
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I know the music files aren’t like that. I haven’t listened to ALL of the them, but I’ve listened to many of them and even reused some of them. And besides, it sounds like crap. I don’t see why any music composer would pan audio like that.
I have already tried panning the channels to mono (both A1 and A2 to 0 instead of -1 and 1) and that just causes the audio to kinda fade out.
oh well….thanks anyway for your insight
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
http://www.robgrauert.com
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