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Anyone? Anyone?
Beuhler? Beuhler?
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First, a bit of backstory: I use a digital voice recorder and lapel mic to record the audio I use in my work. My cameras' built-in mics record mostly wind noise and not much else, especially if I'm any distance from the camera. So I synch the two audio tracks up in PD14, then mute the audio track attached to the video.
But today, I started having issues with the two tracks suddenly, well, for the lack of a better term, 'desynchronizing' simply by zooming in and out of the timeline. I'm not moving either audio track, just clicking on the + and - icons for the timeline zoom. Doing so causes the two audio tracks to become desynchronized. And the shift between the two depends on how much I zoom in or out.
Sample: I would zoom in to visually line up the two tracks, click on Play, and adjust the audio track from the voice recorder left and right until it synched with the audio track of the audio/video line that is directly from the camera. When I zoom out, they get further and further out of synch.
I tried restarting Win 8.1 to no avail. Anyone have a suggestion?
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Oh, I see now. I dunno... six of one, half dozen of the other. I'll stick with AVS since it automatically saves to the original files' directory as well as copies the original .MOV filename as the .WAV filename, while PD needs to be directed to save to a specific directory and must be renamed in the process.
But it was you that turned on the light bulb over my head!
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Yes, but I must go through the lengthy process of producing the file just to extract a mono audio file.
Using AVS, creating the mono track takes about 15 seconds to rip, save, insert, copy & paste.
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I have a short-cut kind of solution. Not as ideal as being able to simply click on the audio track and convert it to mono, but it does work.
I use my normal audio editor (AVS) to rip the audio track directly from the video file. Say, DSC_1234.MOV. I then save it as a .wav, 16-bit mono in the same directory as the original video. So now I have added DSC_1234.WAV to the file folder.
Then, import both into PD14 and drop them into the timeline. Highlight and copy the mono audio track, then highlight the audio/video and Insert the mono audio track. Choose Overwrite, and the stereo audio will be replaced with the mono track. Highlight the original video and the newly pasted audio track and right-click. Choose "Link/Unlink Video and Audio". Bam... it's like my camera recorded the audio in mono, and most importantly.... it's in synch!
Then delete the mono track from the timeline and I'm off and running. Not exactly as elegant a solution as I'd like, but certainly will do the trick quite nicely for the few audio tracks I need in mono for the work I'm doing.
I do appreciate the help, folks! You filled in some holes for me and got me to put on my thinking cap with your suggestions! Many many thanks to the community!
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I appreciate the help. But here's the problem: I'm not wanting to produce the entire timeline as mono.... just certain audio tracks.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/eiznqq4mershfbk/Babbling%20Brook%20Ken%203.wav?dl=0
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AD was not bundled with my software. It's an additional $129 purchase.
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I've tried editing them in Wave Editor. For some reason, it doesn't like my camera's .wav files and simply returns an error message that it cannot be loaded. No problems with any other .wav files.
I guess I'm really looking for both L & R audio channels to be identical if PD14 can only produce stereo audio as an output.
I have the ability to batch convert them, so that's not an issue. But then I need to realign them back with the video, and that becomes a time-consuming nightmare.
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Have the need to convert stereo audio files to mono and the quickest way to do this is if PD14 would allow me to do this right in the timeline. However, I don't see any options other than to drag the file to another app and save it, then reload the mono file. I cannot edit it with WaveEditor as the only thing it does is give me a "File Not Imported" error message.
Am I missing something?
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Even if it could be accomplished by manually altering the video file, that might be something I'd be willing to try.
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Is there any way in PD14 to randomly alter the exposure of a video clip to simulate the look of an off-camera flickering fire used for lighting (think of a campfire).
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