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Only mono audio output with AVCHD in PPr
Just have a new camera a Sony HXR-NX3. The output is AVCHD. Unfortunately I hHave no experience with that material. Anyway, today, I recorder an interview. The person was wearing a little mic on her blouse (sennheiser) in Channel 1 and also I use the VG1 microphone (on board of my camera) as channel 2. Both lines were moving while recording.
I now imported the footages into Premiere Pro CS6. The output is only giving me the audio of the little mic. I imported the footages via media browser into CS6. The Master sais “stereo” but I have only sound on my left side, so definitely it’s a Mono track. I can modify that track but I cannot hear or get the onboard mic files. Can someone tell me what I do wrong? Thanks in advance. -
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The vg1 is an external microfoon, are you sure the camera can record two external sources at the same time.
Use the Fill Left effect to get audio on both channels.
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Yes, In channel 1 I have put the little mic and normally the onboard mic will take over the surrounding sound. I worked often with this sort of recording. And channel 1 and 2 gave out 2 different signals during recording.
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Is your audio set up to be 1 channel mono?
Right click on the clip in the Project panel and go to Modify-Audio Channels.
I suspect what might work best for you is
Number of Audio Tracks: 2
Channel Format: Mono
This should get both channels of audio on the timeline and also on separate tracks.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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I have the audio channels as “use File”. I can modify the track with the little mic to “stereo” . That sound is perfect, both audio are the same output, as it is copied and the sound is to hear only on one site. And it said there:
Source channel: left: Track audio 1: channel in track: Left.
Source channel: right: track “empty space” channel in track: right.When I change it into Mono. I get left and right: audio 1, audio 2 but both Channel 1. Still output only one site.
Where is Channel 2. the camera mic? Still I am missing the total track of the gun-mic. It looks like PPr hasn’t import it.
As this is a brand-new camera I used the audio of the camera as automate, so I haven’t muted the camera mic. When recording, I saw both channels active on the LCD of the camera.The AVCHD output is one large file. I copied the whole private folder to the computer Than imported in PPr via media browser, the file than is cut into smaller parts. The footages I wanted to use I selected and right clicked on it and imported it into my project. Than I put it on the timeline and it showed only 1 (stereo) track.
The audio I recorded it the same as I did with my other Sony camera (with tapes). When importing, I got one stereo track of the mic and one stereo track of the camera mic. Now just the little mic track. How can I check the AVCHD file how many audio track it has. -
The VG1 microphone is not an onboard mic. its external connected with xlr.
You might have set up your camera the wrong way.
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Yes, I did use my earphones and also looked at the LCD screen and there both of the lines were giving signals. The camera is brand new so as I had to shoot, I just took the automatic audio setting.
Plugged in the VG1 in channel 2 and the receiver of the small mic into channel 1. Isn’t that the right way? -
[Ann Bens] “The vg1 is an external microfoon, are you sure the camera can record two external sources at the same time.
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Yes Ann, after a lot of testing (and pretty busy with work) I have to admit you were right! Seems indeed I didn’t recorded one track. The settings were wrong. Totally different. Still studying how to set it up. But it was not premiere pro which didn’t do the job. I was making the mistake. Thanks for getting me in the right direction.
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PP does not support AVCHD files which may cause choppy or missing audio/some video problems. Adobe says the solution to this is to burn the AVCHD files to a disk first before importing. I did for this for the problem clip and it solved the missing video problem, but there was still a missing audio track, and yes, I checked everything. Converting AVCHD files with Any Video Converter has worked in the past when using a different camera.
I think the solution is to burn just the audio to a DVD, in the case of very large files.
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