How to take mono material on one channel and copy it to the unused channel?

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brsm1990 Author

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How to take mono material on one channel and copy it to the unused channel?

I am recording audio to my canon 5d using some sennehiser EW 100 G3 wireless lav mics. The canon is only recording the audio to the left channel. What will be the easiest way to just copy this audio to the right channel (i.e. make it mono audio but coming from both speakers) either inside or outside of FCP X? r

I know of course I could rip the audio out of the video, export it as wav, edit it in some audio editor and then drop it back in and sync it but I'm hoping there is an easier and faster way with less steps.

Thanks.

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), Retina (4th Logic Board)

Posted on Jun 1, 2016 6:24 AM

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Answer 1

Tom Wolsky

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Jun 1, 2016 6:28 AM in response to brsm1990

IIt's not necessary. If you have stereo output it will be in both channels.

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brsm1990 Author

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Jun 1, 2016 6:33 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

No the problem is the that the camera is only recording to 1 channel and then when I watch the playback on my computer the voice is only coming out of the left channel. Same thing after I have imported it into FCP X... Is there an easy way to get it on both channels? Thanks.

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Tom Wolsky

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Jun 1, 2016 6:38 AM in response to brsm1990

So it's actually a stereo recording. Go into channel configurations in audio. Switch it to dual mono, and switch off the unused channel.

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brsm1990 Author

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Jun 1, 2016 6:38 AM in response to brsm1990

I believe i found the setting. It has to be set to dual mono. I am not sure how I got to this screen though, is there a short cut to get here or something I can search in help that will point me directly to this menu?

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brsm1990 Author

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Jun 1, 2016 6:41 AM in response to brsm1990

Like this? Thanks. What is the quickest way to get back to this screen?

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Tom Wolsky

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Jun 1, 2016 6:44 AM in response to brsm1990

CCommand-4 opens and closes the inspector. You're in the audio tab. If you have multiple clips that all have the same channel configuration you select them all and change them at the same time.

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