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mono single track should play only in left or right. But plays in both.

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January 25, 2020
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Presume/Suppose that I've a stereo audio clip in which dog barking is in my left channel and right channel contains cat sounds.

Now when in Project Panel> Clip> Modify> Audio Channels> Mono> 2 Channels> on 2 tracks.

And drag that file on 2 separate mono tracks on my timeline. But when I play, both dog and cats sounds play in both speakers. I can't make it play dog in left and cat in right speakers. Cat will also play in both speakers (unless I mute one speaker manually from some windows control), and dog will also play in both speakers.

In below screen shot, its not actually cats and dogs, but sound is stereo. But problem is that both speakers play same sound. Both level meters go up/down, or show sound, even when I mute one audio track (as showing in SS).
What goes?

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Richard M Knight

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What you have is sometimes refered to as 'Split track mono'. Often this is boom mic on one channel and lavalier mics on the other, or for theatrical productions camera mic on one and mixer op on the other. In these cases for the final mix you would want both tracks to come out of both speakers.

In the verly early days of NLE and DAW the timelines only had mono tracks and any stereo imported material ended up on two tracks with the track faders ganged together and the pan pots were used to route left and right. This, as you have noticed, has now changed with a selection of mono, adaptive and multi channel tracks which often causes confusion ( and level inconsistancies). Somtimes the old way of doing things was easier.

zopfanAuthor

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Thank you for your time/answer. But one, I don't think mine is a case as explained in your last answer.

And two, I've moved on as I have discarded that project and started afresh with somewhat new clips. And haven't encountered that problem with new clips as yet. If I face that again, I'll pay more attention this time to the cause of problem and report back.

Thanks again.
you people are wonderful.

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Richard M Knight

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I can only suggest what has been said before, use the pan controls in the Track mixer, pan one mono track left and the other right.

Stan Jones

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Curious. What do you hear if you use the "preview" in the modify clip window? Are the tracks separate?

Stan

zopfanAuthor

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In that dialogue box's bottom, there is a drop down in which I've to choose whether I want to choose 'Left' channel's preview or right's.

But whatever I choose, I hear sound in both speakers.

Note: Don't think that there is something wrong in my hardware setup. Because if I mute one channel/side by clicking any of the two small round icons just below left/right 'Audio Meters', then one speaker does go mute.

zopfanAuthor

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Alright so here is the problem.

By default , a sequence have standard tracks, that mean you can put mono or stereo files but they are stereo.

So if you put your mono tracks on a standard track they will act like stereo.

So first of all , in your project panel, choose modify and split your stereo file in two mono files.

On your timeline, create 2 mono tracks ( you can delete the others standard tracks )and then insert your tracks on the mono tracks.Use your pan to control the speaker.

Should work now. Don't forget to create a preset from that sequence if you plan to use it very often.

Thank you very much for bearing with me.

My query is such that even google proved unhelpful in this matter.

Whenever I search tons of articles on handling stereo and mono sound appear.

But none of them is to the point which I'm experiencing. I know that Premiere isn't wrong. Neither are you people. But surely there is something which I'm not understanding.

I'd try to put my problem in a bit other words.

When I drag some stereo audio track onto timeline, it gets set into stereo Track on TL.

But what I did is that I converted that stereo track into mono, by going into Clip> Modify Clip> Audio Channels (Ctrl+G) and there I choose Clip Channel Format (from Stereo) to Mono, Number of Audio Clips to 2, and assign Clip1, Ch-1 to Left and Clip2, Ch1 to Right. (in project panel that audio still shows same, i.e. they don't become 2) and then (after creating 2 new mono tracks on TL) drag this audio clip onto TL onto 2 newly created mono audio tracks.

Now if I mute, or delete one Mono track, I expect the audio to come from only 1 speaker, without me panning the audio manually to any one speaker or the other (though if I do pan, then sound does come into targeted speaker only, no problem there). But what's happening is that unless I pan manually, sound keeps coming from both channels/speakers. That's what I'm not expecting. Why, when audio/sound is present on 1 mono track, sound is coming to both speakers?

Hope you'll be kind to clear this funda (again, I wasn't able to get this from google even after reading tens of pages and watching YT videos).
PS: I've attached a fresh, related SS in one of my above replies just 15 min back.

Richard TOULON

Legend

Open you Track mixer and maybe use Pan.

zopfanAuthor

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In CC2017, I couldn't find 'Pan' command in the 'Audio Clip Mixer' panel.

Richard TOULON

Legend

Try AUDIO TRACK MIXER not audio Clip mixer.

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