Dangers of deleting one audio channel??

JackW wrote on 9/5/2005, 9:17 PM
Here's the situation: I've been shooting an industrial site for the past week. We've been using two wireless mikes in conjunction with the PD-150, one on each channel. One day, one of the wireless mics was set up in such a way that it was too hot, and audio on that mic's channel is blown out -- clipped and completely smothered with ambient factory noise.

I've duplicated the audio track in Vegas, then split the audio into a channel one track and a channel two track. Channel one, the blownout channel, can't be used, but (fortunately) channel two is o.k.

So, my question is this: if I use just the one channel -- the right -- and burn this to a DVD, will there be any audio problem with playback? I guess what I'm concerned about is that this will be handled by some playback equipment as though it was a mono recording, therefore unplayable.

Are my fears grounded? Is there a way around this?

Jack

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Spot|DSE wrote on 9/5/2005, 9:47 PM
Nope. Just select the right channel only (right click, channels, Right Channel) and you'll have a nice lil' mono channel there. When you render it, it becomes 2 channels again, but that's OK.
BTW, it IS a mono recording, if you had two wireless units discreetly feeding the inputs of the cam.
JackW wrote on 9/6/2005, 10:21 AM
Makes sense. Thanks.

Jack