Best Way To Deal With DJI Mic Audio In Vegas Pro 20?

Seggons wrote on 6/7/2024, 8:34 AM

Hello everyone.

 

I've been mainly working with pure GoPro video and stereo audio for my YouTube videos, but at the start of the week I purchased DJI's microphone setup which consist of 1 receiver and 2 transmitters/mics. The idea is for me to have 1 transmitters/mic and my partner to have the other. With the way that the DJI mics work, it will record my voice onto the left audio channel in mono and my partners onto the right audio channel in mono.

What I'd like to know is the best way to deal with the audio in Vegas Pro? My thinking is to duplicate the audio onto 4 different tracks. Then on audio tracks 1 and 2, right click on the audio > Channels > Left Only. That will then pick out my mic track. Then on the sliders, pan track 1 to the left and pan track 2 to the right. This would then make the audio stereo? Then for tracks 3 and 4 I'd do the same as above but selecting the right only channel to pick out my partners mic track. The resulting timeline would look like the following:

On the left is the audio after I've done the above method. The audio on the right is how it's recorded with mic 1 being on the left track and mic 2 being on the right track. Is this the best way to deal with the DJI audio or do you intelligent people have a better way to work with the audio?

 

Thanks for any help or tips that can be given. 😁👍

Comments

RogerS wrote on 6/7/2024, 8:36 AM

I think your method works.

Alternatively you could go to Preferences-> Options-> general and check the box marked "Import stereo as dual mono" if this is the main media you work with.

It's probably possible to script this action and apply it selectively but something I have personal experience with.

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DMT3 wrote on 6/7/2024, 8:45 AM

No reason to duplicate to 4 tracks if you only have two channels. Each track will be Mono regardless of how many tracks it is on. Duplicate the track once, use Left Only on one and Right only on two. When you mix, it will mix as stereo if you choose.

Seggons wrote on 6/7/2024, 8:54 AM

That's a great tip RogerS about selecting import stereo as dual mono which I might use in future. 👍

Hah DMT3. For some reason in my mind, I thought if I selected left only, it would only play out of the left speaker/headphone and the same for right only. Just gave your method a try and each audio track does indeed play out of both speakers which is exactly what I was after. 👌😁