How to record in stereo?

[breadtopia]

I'm just starting to make movies with a Panasonic PV-GS35 and using a cheap clip on mic to record sound. I'm making Flash video clips and posting to a blog. Most of the time the sound in the Flash clip comes through in mono but on one clip it came through in stereo. I don't know what I did to make it work in stereo and would like to get stereo sound all the time.

Can anyone give me any ideas how to get stereo on consistent basis?

Thanks,

Eric

[redwudz]

It really wouldn't be stereo if it was recorded with just one microphone, it would be dual audio if the same audio was on both channels. You can take your mono audio file and put it into a audio editor and duplicate the one track to a second track. If you messed around with the sound settings a little, you could make it sound more like stereo. Maybe a little bit of echo or change the frequencies a little to make the two channels sound a little different.

Audacity is a good freeware audio editor that can do all that. It accepts WAV, AIFF, MP3 and Ogg audio.

But if you do have a stereo microphone and the stereo disappears when you encode it to flash format, you would have to tell the software you are using to encode with and the steps you are taking to encode it. That camera apparently records in stereo.

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