I don't think that PD has that option. I have used PD to stripped out the audio and then you can produce just that. I have then taken that file to a different utility to hack on it, and then brought it back to PD as voice or music.

How are you playing the produced product at the lecture theater? Can't you simply use a stereo to mono pigtail and also a splitter if you need to on the audio out side of your device?

Jeff

You can also change the playback to mono to get sound from both speakers. PC specs :
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I've got a similiar problem and need to convert stero audio to mono. I finally found a way to get audio out of my airplanes intercom, but it is recorded as stereo although the intercom is mono. I try to produce movies of my flights to post on the internet, but they only play out of the left speaker. I really don't want a hardware solution since I already have too many wires/adapters in the cockpit. It should be a simple software feature to merge stereo channels. Any ideas? I know I could strip it, combine them, then bring the audio back in, but then I would have to edit the video and audio files seperately, which would be a total pain since I usually have 50 small clips.

Hi Stas, JL, Babdi, Jayson, (and all ships at sea...),

Wouldn’t this work?
Produce your project to Windows AVI by clicking...
Produce > Avi > Windows Avi > Settings > Video/Audio Settings > Attributes
Under “Attributes” there are many “mono” options to choose from.
And I assume that if you Produce in mono, your produced file will playback through both speakers.

Then you can take that produced Windows Avi file (that’s in mono), and load it back into a new PD timeline, and re-produce it to whatever format you want to use to broadcast and distribute it.

I haven’t tested this with a clip that only has audio in one (left or right) channel. But it seems like it should work if one wanted to go through the effort. Somebody please set me straight if I’m missing something here.

(Adrian, here’s your chance for revenge, hahaha!)

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As Jeff said, PD doesn't seem to have that option.

I've just played with an idea that seemed to work but does depend on the file formats chosen/needed.

Produce your video as normal (but the file format may be influential), as I understand the problem you have stereo audio with only one channel waveform, the other being 'silent'. What is then needed is to either duplicate the channel or merge the stereo to mono and let the player deal with the mono input over stereo speakers?

So, run the completed video through Super©, setting the video to stream copy (avoiding any further transcoding or video processing) but setting the audio to 1 channel, yourbitrate etc etc.

Depending on the parameters and codecs chosen, since in my experiment some combinations were processed but resulted in no audio, it might do the job, unfortunately I haven't got any 'single channel' stereo audio to work with, but it does convert the normal stereo to mono according to mediainfo.

Might be worth a try????

Cheers
Adrian


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Hey Cranston, how come you always post first - what time of night are you on anyway - it's 0755 here?

cheers
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Hi Adrian,

It's 12:20AM right now on this side of the pond. I tend to stay up late owing to my particular schedule.

So... My idea/method proffered above, won't result in mono playback in both speakers?
Am I still thinking analog in a digital world?
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OK, so your idea is simpler, only uses PD, is probably quicker, and does the same thing as my idea.

Reluctantly, you win.

I could lie and say you're really old and I'm only 37 but that would have been 20 years ago - whoops.

Cheers
Adrian Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (see below)
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Anyway, my photo is nearer my age than yours! Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (see below)
Confucius
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Adrian,

I've already learned more new information from your posts than you'll ever learn from any of mine. So in that respect, yes, I win.

And yes, time does fly doesn't it?

As far as mono. I didn't have any video with only one channel of audio either, so I couldn't test my suggested workaround. But I would think it should work. Maybe Stas will try it, and report his results to the forum.

Oh, and my profile picture? I use that photo because, well, my looks just went down hill from three, hahaha.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCi4sWQBEiQ

This is the the video that I posted with sound only in the left speaker. I'm trying to avoid video encoding to different medias since I want to maintain the HD clarity since YouTube now supports HD. If Super allows me to fix the audio without messing with the video, that might be the best solution until PD adds this simple feature.

Hi Jayson,

Just tried the following :-

grabbed your one channel video off youtube as a .flv.

used pazera flv to avi to convert to an avi - only did this to get the idea of what would work - changed the audio to 1 channel and converted.

WMP doesn't like the result but media player classic home cinema has no problems, the audio is now mono and plays in both channels video seems fine.

So, in principle it should work???.

Over to you.

Cheers
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Another option is to use the CLVS function within the produce tab which will render mono audio to both channels (well it did for my test anyway). I used living room setting. It might introduce a bit of echo effect but worth a try.