[Russell Anway]

This is starting to make sense to me now. I read the manual when I got the zoom and I seem to recall something about recording stereo audio with a mic in front of and behind the band. I had an xl2 back in the day and it said “stereo” on the on-board mic and I somehow got it into my head that shotgun mics record stereo audio. Though I just looked at the me66 on b and h and it obviously doesn’t say anything about that.

This is making me think of all the audio I’ve recorded wrong (all of it).

At any rate. Thank you very much for helping me. You have been exceedingly patient!

[Russell Anway]

It’s an h4n. I have it plugged into the “1” jack, record to “stereo,” press the 1 on the face and record it to a .wav file at 48khz. Though I’m sure there are untold numbers of things in there I’m not aware of.

[Russell Anway]

Yes. Thank you so much for your thorough response. You are a champ.

I am in fact using an xlr to xlr cable (the reason I soldered it was to put a right angled connection on the end). But now that I know the issue isn’t in premiere or media encoder it’s going to be much easier to figure out.

Thanks again.

[Russell Anway]

Thank you so much, I meant to say that I would try your suggestion when I got back to my computer (was away yesterday i.e. iPad) but neglected to put it in my post.

That does seem to have fixed it. I say “seem” only because I’m still unclear on what was happening and why. Here is the corrected version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axdd39xfOLk&feature=youtu.be

I just don’t quite understand what you mean by my audio being “flipped.”

I was plugging my me66 into my zoom with an XLR. My understanding is that it is balanced (though I don’t totally know what that means), it is long, and it’s worth knowing I soldered one end on myself (though I have every reason to believe I did that correctly).

So is this something that is happening because of the way I’m setting up? Is the “fill left” effect just copying the right side audio over to the left, and therefore eliminating the stereo effect?

Thank you again for your help, but I’d still love to know what’s going on.

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[Russell Anway]

Thank you for your responses, though I’m not sure we’ve hit on a solution yet.

Firstly, a link. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bIV2U6bFXvA&feature=plcp

Here’s an example, but there are dozens of these that behave identically. It’s worth noting that I’m currently on an ipad, and I can here all the proper tracks, but that the audio sounds a bit garbled.

Next, the video was shot on a dslr, audio was recorded with a sennheiser me66 into a zoom as stereo.

I’m not an audio pro, but I have some basic mixing skills and I can’t imagine this is a levels/compression problem, the music is so quiet.

Next, I’ll say that my suspicion is that I have something along the lines of this : https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1160353

But, it’s not panned to the left, at least not in the controls tab of the viewer window. But having run some tests on different timeline settings, I’ve come up with various screwed up variations of the problem including, voices not music, so I must confess I don’t fully understand some of these settings in premiere, as I am a fairly recent convert, longtime fcper. Also, cs6, btw.

Thanks, any suggestions would be great. I need this fixed tomorrow so I’m looking at an edl to fcp, but a long term solution would be better as this seems to be a bi-product of my workflow/setup.

Thanks.

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[Russell Anway]

I am having a similar issue. I shot some footage with my xl-2, edited it into a timeline in FCP, and then exported master clips from the timeline using media manager/copy.

I imported into After effects, did my work and exported using aspect ratio 720×480, and the pixel aspect ratio of 1.2 (d1/dv ntsc widescreen). But upon exporting I compared the video from AE side-by-side against the original and found that it is squished and narrower. And in FCP I have to change the file’s format to anamorphic to get it to fill out the viewer.

So I fiddled, and found that if I change the comp settings, making the pixel ratio square, the image displayed in AE becomes wider, and the file exported as well, now when I look at it in quicktime the image is undistorted, but cropped on the sides. So I changed the comp settings again to a size of 784×486. Now everything seems great.

What I’m confused about is why the image is getting wider when I change to square pixels from widescreen pixels in AE. And I know the xl-2 records to tape at 720×480, so why is AE cropping the comp at that size (with square pixels)? Is the method I described better or worse than the original? I just want to make sure I’m not losing pixels on my way back to FCP.