Sound only coming out of left side?

landofthelauren

landofthelauren

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So I became aware of the audio of my videos coming dominantly out of the left side by KGATV (thank you for telling me by the way) and its starting to really annoy me. Does anyone know why this is and how to fix it? I use imovie to edit videos if thats important...
 
landofthelauren said:
So I became aware of the audio of my videos coming dominantly out of the left side by KGATV (thank you for telling me by the way) and its starting to really annoy me. Does anyone know why this is and how to fix it? I use imovie to edit videos if thats important...
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The reason this is happening is because you're only recording one channel of audio, so it's only playing out one side. I'm not sure about iMovie, but in Premiere I just duplicate the sound so I have two channels, so it will play out both sides. I have only really used iMovie once though so I'm no expert on it, sorry. :(
 
I don't know how IMovie works and I'm not a pro in editing so anyone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe you can adjust this using balance control, in Sony Vegas there is an option called "Audio Pan Envelope" where you can do this.
 
Perhaps your camera records it in mono audio and iMovie automatically places it on the left?
I believe you're going to have to find a way to split it back into two tracks OR find a way to get iMovie to play it on the right as well.
 
There are all of these buttons for the audio on my camera (its a super big confusing camera my dad bought a long time ago that i've been borrowing) i'm not even sure if this has anything to do with it but does anyone know if these buttons are important for the audio?
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After doing some research on the interwebs (and blowing off the dust on iMovie and opening it) I have found that what I said isn't possible in iMovie itself. However if you extract the Mono track from your video you could take that into Garageband and make it stereo in there.[DOUBLEPOST=1372264663,1372264624][/DOUBLEPOST]
landofthelauren said:
There are all of these buttons for the audio on my camera (its a super big confusing camera my dad bought a long time ago that i've been borrowing) i'm not even sure if this has anything to do with it but does anyone know if these buttons are important for the audio?
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Do you have a mic running into your camera?
 
HenronStudios said:
After doing some research on the interwebs (and blowing off the dust on iMovie and opening it) I have found that what I said isn't possible in iMovie itself. However if you extract the Mono track from your video you could take that into Garageband and make it stereo in there.[DOUBLEPOST=1372264663,1372264624][/DOUBLEPOST]
Do you have a mic running into your camera?
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Yeah its like a mic connected to the camera
 
landofthelauren said:
Yeah its like a mic connected to the camera
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Ok that's why you're getting one channel of audio. We have the same problem with recording our audio to our Zoom H4n. The only way to solve that without editing the audio in post is to get something like an XLR splitter cable and connect it to both input ports. Therefore it will record two channels instead of one. That would work...assuming your mic connects using an XLR cable.

Hopefully I'm making sense :p
 
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