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  • When changing audio to dual mono it now peaks at over 0db??

    Posted by James Bayliss-smith on November 5, 2011 at 7:55 am

    Hi there, I’m working with a load of interviews where the radio mic is on track one and the gun mic is on track two. It is HDV material shot on a Sony Z1. Why is it that

    1. When I capture the video the audio is automatically stereo. I would prefer if it wasn’t, I had to change all the audio setting to dual mono in the event browser before I started editing (I forgot to do this at first and I couldn’t change it once I had laid the clips onto the timeline which was annoying as I had to replace loads of cuts just so I could seperate the audio out

    Why is it that once I have seperated the audio to dual mono it is now peaking everywhere. The levels seem to have juoed about 6db. I know it was correctly recorded as I did it myself.

    Any ideas?

    John Pale replied 14 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • James Bayliss-smith

    November 5, 2011 at 8:10 am

    Well I just laid a clip down to the timeline an the levels are back to normal. But when I play that clip from the browser they are peaking? Wierd

  • John Pale

    November 7, 2011 at 4:07 am

    This is a normal phenomena in audio mixing. The audio gets down mixed in the timeline by 3 db per channel to compensate. FCP classic does this too (it’s adjustable in preferences, but 3 db is the default)

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