Surround sound mixer

garywood84 · Post by **garywood84** » Sat May 05, 2007 8:44 pm

I have added sound clips to the voice and music tracks in VS10. I want those in the voice track to play in the left channel and those in the music track to play only in the right channel.

I am trying to do this with the surround sound mixer, by clicking on the voice track then dragging the slider to the extreme left, then doing the same with the music track dragging to the right. However, as soon as I play back, the slider jumps back to the middle.

I've tried everything I can think of, but can't get this to work. Can anyone advise me how to do it or have I found another bug in the program?

Gary

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat May 05, 2007 9:04 pm

See if this helps:
VideoStudio Demo & Training Videos

look for 06 Dolby Surround Sound

garywood84 · Post by **garywood84** » Sat May 05, 2007 11:18 pm

sjj1805,

Thanks for this. Watching the video clip confirmed that I've been trying to set the channel correctly.

However, my situation is slightly more complicated than the video's example, in that I have multiple audio files within the voice and music tracks, at various points in the film I'm making.

If I select the voice track, make sure I'm in project (rather than clip) mode and then drag the Surround slider to the extreme left, I'd expect everything in the voice track to now play only in the left channel (i.e. it should only come through my left speaker). However, that doesn't happen. The first clip plays in the left channel only, but as soon as the second clip starts, it defaults back to playing in both channels (i.e. the surround slider jumps back to the middle)!

Any ideas how I can solve this? At the moment I'm thinking I might have to do some of VideoStudio's work by creating an audio file based on the voice track, and one based on the music track, then inserting these back into my project - so that the sound in each track will consist of only one file. That way, I should be able to apply the settings - it's just not the most elegant solution as far as future editing of the project is concerned.

Thanks,

Gary

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat May 05, 2007 11:25 pm

I had thought in any case that the application of an audio setting only applied on a clip-by-clip basis, rather than to a whole project. In other words, you have to repeat your action for each clip in the project you want that effect applied to. Tedious, I know, but there you are...

Or am I missing something here?

garywood84 · Post by **garywood84** » Sun May 06, 2007 10:15 am

Ken,

It's not the fact that it's tedious that's bothing me, so much as the fact that I can't find a way to apply the settings to each clip individually.

If I select the voice track, make sure I'm in project mode and then move the surround slider to the left, I get the correct result for the first clip. I can't find a way to then move the the second sound clip and make the settings on that. If I click in the timeline at the very start of the clip and make the settings, it appears to apply them. However, when you play it back, only the very beginning of the clip has become left-channel only - and over the first few seconds that the clip is playing the slider moves, on it's own, back to the centre, so that it comes through both channels!

Any ideas?

Gary