Selecting left or right audio track in bilingual recording

I recorded a presentation which had simultaneous interpretation into Japanese with a 4K camcorder. I took an input from the sound mixer which had English on the left channel and Japanese on the right channel.

I have been trying to find a way to separate out the 2 soundtracks to produce 2 movies in English and Japanese but cannot find a way to do this in iMovie. I'm thinking iMovie is not advanced enough and I have to use Garageband and dub it back in but this is not ideal.

Can anyone help? Thanks so much.

iMac, macOS Sierra (10.12.6), Panasonic HC-WX970M

Posted on Apr 27, 2018 11:28 PM

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Apr 29, 2018 12:29 AM in response to Rich839

Thanks for clarifying, Rich. I'm not a big fan of the dumbed down iMovie - previous versions were more intuitive. I am a VLC user but wanted to edit and publish on one app so ended up buying Adobe Premiere Elements which seems to have a great range of features aimed at the advanced consumer. There is a sound mixer feature so you can zero out the volume on one of the channels. It's a bit of a manual process but did the trick. I didn't even have to read an instruction manual to start using it. Great experience so far.

Apr 29, 2018 12:29 AM in response to dickbytes

iMovie does not have the capability to separate two sound tracks from a video clip that is imported into it. Possibly the free down load VLC can do that with conversion settings, but I have never tried it. I see that VLC has an Audio setting to disable a track and deal with stereo channels. Undoubtedly there are other apps that can deal separately with audio channels that you might find by Googling.


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