Sound from external Mic.

[tony]

Am I doing this right, or is there another way. I recorded an interview using an external mic going into CH-1 or 2 in the back of my camera. I captured the clip and brought it into the edius timeline.
As I play the clip on the TLine going through my Pani svhs recorder I can select and listen to anyone of the two sound tracks,the onboard mic and the external mic. So far so good, no problems so far. In this case I only want the external mic sound to be heared... Its this bit I would like the advice on....So what I do is Alt and Enter to bring the clip properties up, Audio info tab and in my case select monaural channel 2 apply and ok. but in playback I think the sound is a little low compared to when i listened to it going through my panasonic recorder. I can increase the rubber band value ok but I'm wondering why would it seem a little lower in volume.

Tony.

[SRsupport]

It depends on your pan settings
Edius 3 compat mode is copy
Edius 4 standard is divide

[tony]

Steve,I forgot to say Edius 4.61

[SRsupport]

answer still applies both settings are available.

[JimJulian]

It depends on your pan settings
Edius 3 compat mode is copy
Edius 4 standard is divide

Wow. We set all our systems up to Edius 3 compat mode. I never thought of it as "copy". By choosing that are we "doubling" our sound volume? I must experiment.
This setting has always puzzled me. We use the two mic system in the field and always bring them into the timeline as monoral 1 and monoral 2. Nothing is panned. The waveform is top and bottom for easier keyframing.

jim

[SRsupport]

It depends on the mapping mostly used by post house and Broadcasters.

Let us say you have to deliver all audio on ch 1 on the recorder.

I You have mapped A1 and A2 both to go out to ch1
When using edius 3 compat mode
You get 100 left and 100 right thus the sum will be to high (copy)

In the edius 4 mode now the standard
You get 50 left and 50 right so the sum is 100. (divide)

Note: If the output map is that A1 goes to CH1
and A2 is to ch2
Then you are ok with the edius 3 mode.
because 100 goes to CH1 and 100 goes to ch2

It all depands on mapping of the output and the application .

[tony]

By choosing that are we "doubling" our sound volume? I must experiment.
This setting has always puzzled me.
jim

What setting? Where is it.?

Tony

[GrassValley_BH]

This is why I prefer to use the PanPot&Balance audio filter. But that's the nice thing about EDIUS - so many different ways to do things - pick the one that makes the most sense for you!

[SRsupport]

What setting? Where is it.?

Tony

look at the pictures

[tony]

Steve, thanks, I'll check it out.