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zoes16397629
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May 2, 2017
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Can I split a mono recording into two separate audio tracks?

  • May 2, 2017
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I think I'm pretty much doomed here, but I'm desperate. I recorded an interview using Nikon DSLR. I had a lavalier mic plugged in, so in theory, the audio should have been picked up on the lav mic and the internal mic of the camera. Unfortunately for me, I guess I placed my mic in a bad spot or had a crappy battery or something, because the audio cuts in and out literally every 5 seconds. I guess it recorded in mono, because I can't separate the channels. I really would just use the audio from the internal mic alone at this point if I could. Is there any way to separate a mono recording into two channels, so the lav mic and internal mic are separate? I'm using Premiere 2017 here. Please help!

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    excited_Genie16B8
    Legend
    May 2, 2017

    in theory, the audio should have been picked up on the lav mic and the internal mic of the camera.

    This is normally only possible when you have dedicated switches on the camera to chose.  I've only ever seen those on video cameras, never on a DSLR.

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    Meg The Dog
    Inspiring
    May 2, 2017

    Click on the camera source clip in the Project Panel to select it. Once it is selected, right click on it and from the drop down menu choose Modify > Audio Channels.

    When the Modify Clip pane opens, Set the Clip Channel Format to Mono and set the number of audio clips to 2, then click OK.

    MtD

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    zoes16397629Author
    Participant
    May 2, 2017

    Thanks, that didn't work though. My audio track still looks like this.

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    Meg The Dog
    Inspiring
    May 2, 2017

    Did you plug a mono mic into the camera? Most DSLR cameras without an audio interface disconnect the internal mic when an external mic is plugged in and route what audio is incoming on to the two channels.

    Did you use some kind of audio interface box when connecting the mic to the DSLR?

    Where you monitoring the audio at the time of the recording? Did you hear separate and distinct audio tracks (Lav mic in left headphone, on camera mic in right headphone for example)?

    MtD

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