Audio losing channel when dragged to timeline

Navybean001

Newbie Joined: Feb 15, 2014 18:54 Messages: 1 Offline

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Feb 26, 2014 22:32

I'm working with a video, 1 hr 45 min in length, for which I am importing the mic version of audio for the main portion of the project. The audio file seems OK until dragged to the timeline, then it loses one channel and can only be heard on the left side. I've converted the file to MP3 and to WAV only to have it then lose proper sync with the video. It starts out fine but then loses sync as it goes on. I thought that the conversions may have distorted the speed and I am now tampering with that, with limited success. What might be the problem?

borgus1

Senior Contributor Joined: Feb 27, 2013 00:33 Messages: 1318 Offline

Feb 27, 2014 00:10

Click the EDIT menu|PREFERENCES|GENERAL tab and switch the audio from stereo to 5.1, and see if that kicks in the other channel.

Jimbo223

Member Joined: Apr 25, 2012 02:59 Messages: 95 Offline

Feb 27, 2014 12:54

Hi bean, try what borgus said, if that still doesn't work you could try this from an old post.

Normally when sound only comes out from the left channel I tend to think its mono. I used to have an old recorder that did that.

On trick is to duplicate that left channel on the right channel and, hey presto, you have stereo.

Good luck.

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All vodi

Senior Contributor Location: Canada Joined: Aug 21, 2009 11:24 Messages: 1431 Offline

Feb 27, 2014 13:23

Your source audio is mono.

PD12 by default places it on the left channel on the timeline. You can use the audio editor which will advise you that when the audio track is written back into PD the audio will be mono (same track in both channels). Win 10, i7

PlaySound

Senior Contributor Joined: Dec 02, 2010 10:26 Messages: 2031 Offline

Mar 01, 2014 08:49

Quote: I'm working with a video, 1 hr 45 min in length, for which I am importing the mic version of audio for the main portion of the project. The audio file seems OK until dragged to the timeline, then it loses one channel and can only be heard on the left side. I've converted the file to MP3 and to WAV only to have it then lose proper sync with the video. It starts out fine but then loses sync as it goes on. I thought that the conversions may have distorted the speed and I am now tampering with that, with limited success. What might be the problem?

You can copy the audio channel to another channel directly in PD12.
Select the audio on the timeline and click button, Edit Audio / Wave Editor...
look at the video

BarryTheCrab

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Mar 01, 2014 09:30

You can also bring the audio into WAVE EDITOR and alter it to stereo. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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