stereo audio

[Ben Insler]

No re-digitizing necessary, you can just pan the clips. BUT, you can simply select each pair if you’ve alreayd edited to the timeline and press option+L to make the pair a stereo pair, which should automatically pan track 1 to the L and track 2 to the R.

Best,

Ben

[David Lynch]

Thank you Ben, that’ll save me some time.

-david

[Alexander Kallas]

[Ben Insler] “No re-digitizing necessary, you can just pan the clips. BUT, you can simply select each pair if you’ve alreayd edited to the timeline and press option+L to make the pair a stereo pair, which should automatically pan track 1 to the L and track 2 to the R.”

Be careful!
You may cancel out all the sound (sine wave on cosine wave), safer to have both clips pan to zero,
you’ll still get sound out of both speakers.

Cheers
Alexander

[Neil Ryan]

[Alexander] “safer to have both clips pan to zero,
you’ll still get sound out of both speakers”

That would 2 channels of Mono, wouldn’t it? Not Stereo.

[Alexander Kallas]

[Post Man] “That would 2 channels of Mono, wouldn’t it? Not Stereo”
Yes,
As you’re using the SAME clip on two tracks, it will sound the same as stereo, and it won’t cancel out.

Cheers
Alexander

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[dbl9000] “I just digitized in a bunch of music videos that I need to edit together, and mistakenly had the audio set to digitize 2 mono tracks instead of a stereo pair.”

The OP’s reason for this post is that its a “Music Video” project and NEEDS 2-channel STEREO, not dual mono.

[Ben Insler]

[Alexander] “You may cancel out all the sound (sine wave on cosine wave)”

Good warning, but I’m assuming we’re either talking about captured audio that was recorded by the camera, or a professionally mixed music track. Panning the tracks wouldn’t push audio out of phase, and if the audio was out of phase I’m pretty sure it would cancel itself out whether it was panned LR or dual mono. If you’ve been running into phase/sound issues, you might want to make sure that your audio monitors are in phase.

Best,

Ben

[Neil Ryan]

So, David (the one who started this thread)
Have we successfully answered your question, or like me, are you completely confused by the advice in this thread … ?!?

I’m still stuck on how 2 channels of mono is the same as stereo, for some, anyway …

[David Lynch]

Yes the music was professional recorded and mastered and is 2 channel stereo. Being that these are music videos being released as a sampler for a record label dual mono would be a bad idea. Ben’s advice worked perfectly for me, I did not have any phase issues.

As far as I know dual mono tracks are not stereo, which is why I asked the question in the first place.

Thanks,

-david