I imported a DV clip into iMovie 3. The clip has one video track and
one stereo audio track. I would to separate the two channels of the
audio track into two separate tracks, one for the left and the other
for the right. Is there any way I can do this within iMovie? I'm
willing to buy a plug-in if necessary.

) Select the clip that you wish to extract the audio from by clicking on it.

2) Go to Advanced and then Extract Audio

3) If its stereo the extracted audio appears in track 1 and 2 of the
Timeline Viewer.

4) The audio can now be edited (repositioned or cropped)


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"Timur Tabi" <nospam_timur@tabi.org> wrote in message
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Timur Tabi wrote:
Not clear what you want to do. You said the audio is stereo, therefore
when it is played from iMovie or exported from iMovie it will be video
with a stereo track. When you play it, one track will play in the left
speaker and one in the right. You already have stereo, so what is it
that you want to do that simply playing the video will not do?

Dave

davesvideo@aol.com wrote:

I want to be able to manipulate the left and right channels
independently.

The video is of my wedding. The cameraman gave me a wireless
microphone to wear. The audio from this mic is on the right channel.
The left channel is the audio from the camera's microphone.

The problem is that during the beginning of the wedding, I'm not
visible in the video but my voice can be heard. I want to mute the
right channel during this time and replace it with the left channel.

The DV Show wrote:

It shows up as a single track. I definitely know it's stereo because I
can clearly hear different sounds out of each speaker. The sound in
the left speaker is from the microphone on the camera, and the sound in
the right speaker is from the wireless microphone clipped to my shirt.

In article <1127220886.427985.207350@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups .com>,
Timur Tabi <nospam_timur@tabi.org> wrote:

select the Audio Settings tab, select the track you don't want and mute
it. Then, take the modified track back into iMovie. (You can use
iMovie's editing tools to limit the size of what you're going to edit.)

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sbt wrote:

I must be missing something, because these instructions don't work.

When I extract the audio, it creates a file in my Media folder called
"Voice 01". Is this the file I'm supposed to load into QT Pro? I have
QT 6 Pro, not QT 7 Pro. When I pull up the Properties in QT, I don't
see any Audio Settings tab (or any tabs). Instead, I get a dialog box
with two pull-down menus, one to select the movie vs. audio, and the
other to select a bunch of options. I played with all possible
combinations, and there's no option to select a track or anything like
that.

I also tried using QT to export the audio track to an AIFF file and
then loading that file. It didn't make a difference.

Please keep in mind that this is a single track of audio with two
channels. I'm trying to split the audio into two tracks.

Timur Tabi wrote:

Never mind. I downloaded a demo of Amadeus II, and right in the File
menu is the feature I want: "Export Dual Mono".