Hi, All,

EDIT: I realize this is in the wrong forum. Please disregard - I'll re-post to the Audio forum. Sorry!

Overview: I need to convert a portion of a video's audio stream from mono to stereo.

Disclaimer: I'm a real beginner at all of this stuff. I'll probably sound foolish.

I've captured video from my miniDV camera via Firewire to a type II AVI file using DVIO (thank goodness for SIMPLE tools!).

The beginning of the file has a mono audio stream and the end is in stereo. This happened because I switched from a mono gun mike to the camera's built-in stereo mike during filming (no start/stop).

I'm still using very simple authoring/transcoding/burning tools like NeroVision Express 2 (tried DMF, WinDVDCreator, EditStudio, etc.). When playing back the AVI in these tools, they "lose" the audio stream when it goes from mono to stereo, so the audio just drops out entirely. I'd really like to fix this!

Anybody have suggestions on how I can either use an encoder that's smart enough to find the audio when it "switches" channels, or investigate some editing tool that will "fill in" the stereo channels from the beginning mono audio?

Thanks in advance for any help.

---Jason