New to Premiere Elements-Audio Question

[Dan Littlefield]

Hi!

I have a Sony 200 camera that records in stereo. When I capture into premiere (via 1394), it capures mixed audio on both left and right channels. Is there away to capture and maintain my seperate channels?

Thanks,
Dan :confused:

[Wendy]

Hi Dan ...

... and welcome to the Village :)

I will transfer your message over to the Premiere Elements Section ... I think that you will get more replies if it is there.

Wendy :)

[ATR]

Dan

What version of Premiere Elements are you using?

ATR

[ATR]

Dan,

Add on....please give a fuller model description of your "Sony 200".

Are we talking miniDV camcorder or something else?

ATR

[Dan Littlefield]

Thank you for the welcome and here is some additional information.

The Sony camera is a model DSR-200 and shoots with DVCAM tapes.

The version of Premiere Elements is 7

Thanks again for your help,
Dan :)

[ATR]

Until proven otherwise, my answer to your question would be NO.

With your miniDV camcorder with its firewire connection, you can capture to:
Premiere Elements 7 (DV AVI type 2)
or
WinDV (DV AVI type 1 or DV AVI type 2) http://windv.mourek.cz/
or
Windows Movie Maker (DV AVI type 1)
The following link gives a good idea of what the difference is between AVI type 1 and 2
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd407250(VS.85).aspx (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd407250%28VS.85%29.aspx)

My interpretation of what I read here is that the above addresses audio streams, not the tracks with in the streams.

What exactly do you want to do with your separated stereo (left and right tracks)…edit them separately? If so, have you considered capturing your video with its stereo to Premiere Elements 7 and then exporting the audio to an audio editor such as the free Audacity for editing of these stereo tracks separately?
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
In Audacity, seek out the “Track Pop Down Menu” which drops down when you click the audio file name. You will see an option for “split stereo Track”.

Check it out and see if any of the above works for you.

ATR