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Right and Left Audio tracks question
Hi. I edit weddings that use 2 cameras – the shoulder camera’s sound is from the camera’s mic and the crane camera is connected to the D.J. via wireless device. I use mostly the crane audio and give a little of the shoulder cam (about -30db).
I’m not an expert on how the audio tracks work on the camera itself, I just know how to set it in PPRO and I’m trying to understand something:
When I edit an event that only has one camera, I would duplicate the audio track and apply the “fill left” and “fill right” filters. The fill right would give me the pure D.J. (via wireless) and the fill left would give me the cam mic.
When editing a nested sequence for muticam in PPRO, as you see, you can choose CAM1 or CAM2 on the audio clip itself without applying filters. I just thought about this today, for I was still duplicating the audio tracks… making one CAM1 and another CAM2 but I was still applying the “fill right\left” filters! Is this a mistake? I might be making each trach MONO by doing this!
Summery to my question: When using muticam sequence, after I duplicate the audio track and set one to CAM! and the other CAM2, do I still need to add the “fill left\right” filter? (CAM1 is the cam on crane with just the D.J. in audio and CAM2 is the shoulder cam with just the mic on the cam.)
Thank you
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5 Replies
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[Zvi_Twersky] “I’m not an expert on how the audio tracks work on the camera itself,”
It would be nice to know what cams you are using as usually the onboard mic is stereo and fills one stereo trk(two channels), and external devices like a wireless mic are mono and fill just one channel of a stereo pair unless unless a mono to stereo spliter is used.
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We use Panasonic DVC200 and JVC 5101.
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If I understand you correctly, you want two channels of audio. both stereo. So yes, use the Fill effects to achieve your goal.
Steven
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Steven, are you saying this because your familiar with Premiere Pro’s multicam editing or know the cameras or both? (If you’re familiar with PPRO muticam – I still want to ask on your reply).
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OK, reading his again, I may have misunderstood.
If what you have is two cameras, both with stereo mics, then no, there is no need to fill either channel. My guess is that if you listen to each one individually, the left and the right channels are probably almost identical. SO there is not point to changing that.
I was only saying that it is OK to take one stereo track with two distinct mono mics as input, duplicate the channel to make it proper stereo on each channel. It does not make mono, but rather, identical left and right channels.
In your case, you really don’t need to do that anymore if you have two distinct stereo mics.
Steven
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