audio capture Mono or stereo for a mono lav mic?

well... people speak in mono; people hear in stereo.

Depends a lot on whether you're going to place your speaker in a changing stereo environment.

Personally, I'd stay mono.

Why capture two if you only used one?

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ericward6547 wrote:
Hi Jim, the filming is already finished. I'm talking about putting my footage into final cut. I just don't know if I should select mono or stereo in the clip settings when I capture from my camera.

That's what I was talking about too.

What is your final deliverable? for the web? For home enjoyment on tv, for broadcast? for cinema projection? Each of these has it's own aural space that you should be mixing for.

Personally, I like to put everything in the timeline, even if eventually I don't use it and remove it later. If for nothing else than the odd piece of room tone that becomes necessary.

But if you've got one person talking, in mono, bring him in in mono, and pan the track to where you want it in your mix.

Id like to know more about this *** as well.

I'm recording a voice over for a video. we recored one mono track.

I'm wondering, when its played back, will the mono be heard through all the speakers? or just the "center" speaker for eg.

do we need to copy the mono track to the abutting audio track? or is that not necessary?

of course the background music in in stereo.

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Because then you forget to set the settings back and your next capture is farked.

I always capture everything, even if I only need 1 piece of it. The space difference is minimal.

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