Source audio problem editing footage from Pana GH6

Zkuggi wrote on 10/3/2024, 4:12 PM

Hi all.

I am having problem with the audio on the footage that I shot with my Panasonic GH6. I was unaware that the camera saved 4 different audio channels. I use Rode mic and it seems to be recorded to channel 3. Native mic records to channel 4 but channel 1 and 2 contain no audio at all.

Browsing this forum I can see that if I add the file to the track it gets added with the default channel 1 and no audio or waveform at all.

I can right click the track and change the audiosource to "track3" and then I hear the audio and the waveform shows.(Same with track4). So it can play the audio. It is not the matter of not understanding the container or codec.

But that kind of breaks my workflow. I always place the source video into the trim window, place my in and out points, before I drag it down to the actual video track.

Does anyone know if I can make the Trim window pick audiotrack "track3" as its default. Is there some global setting that I can tell VPX to have track3 as the default source?

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CubeAce wrote on 10/3/2024, 4:42 PM

@Zkuggi

Hi.

You could just get VPX to split the audio into 4 mono tracks and delete the ones you don't need. Pan remaining tracks left and right as required.

Ray.

Zkuggi wrote on 10/3/2024, 6:03 PM

Thanks @CubeAce.

That works well on the timeline.

But do you know how I can make the source trim window separate the tracks and use one instead of other?

CubeAce wrote on 10/3/2024, 7:29 PM

@Zkuggi

Hi.

Unfortunately as far as I'm aware, all audio editing and selection and manipulation of audio or video objects beyond selecting start and end points to transfer onto the timeline can only be done once the selected section of the clips are transferred onto the timeline. I'm not even sure what can be heard when a multichannel audio file is played back in the source monitor as I have no such files to test.

I had to think about your terminology for the monitor as I refer to the second monitor screen as the preview monitor.

Its officially referred to in the pdf manual as the source monitor but I think a lot of us not prone to reading manuals assign our own terminology onto objects to describe them. 😂👍

Ray.