Sound only comming from one speaker after transfer from VHS to PC?

[Lothar1974]

I am transferring old home movies on VHS to my PC. I have a VCR connected to my Canon ZR70 camcorder, the camcorder to my PC via firewire. The capture quality is great, I am using Premiere Elements 2.0 (Using S-Video and regular audio connectors, Red and white)

I noticed during playback the the sound is only comming from my left speaker. I checked the settings on the VCR and the audio is set correctly, I also checked the audiod setup from my camcorder and it is set to both channels. All the cords were plugged in tight and correctly. Any thoughts? Thanks!!!!

Jason

[redwudz]

Have you checked it with Gspot to see if it indicates stereo channels?

[Lothar1974]

I justed checked it with Gspot. For the audio it states: (S) --> AVI Splitter --> (R)
I am newer to this but I am guessing it means its only outputting via the right channel?
Is there anyway to have it have both channels? I have taken video with my Camcorder before and captured it to my pc and both channels play audio. Is this issue happening because I am using the camcorder as a passthough to my PC? I have to imagine there is a way to do this? I have checked with my Camcorder manual and I believe I have everything setup correctly, same with the VCR. HELP!

Jason

[Lothar1974]

Anyone?

[kschang]

No, (R) in this case means (render)

We want to see what the "audio" section say: how many channels?

[redwudz]

You might want to use the newer version of Gspot (2.52), if you have the older one.
Under 'Audio' a Xvid I have says:

Codec: 0x0055(MP3), ISO Stat: Codec(s) Installed
Info: 48000Hz 128kb/s total (2chanls)

That tells me it's a MP3 audio and I have the proper codec. The second line is the sample rate. bitrate, and the (2chnls) tells me it's stereo (Or at least has more than one channel.)

If it does show stereo, then it's probably just a playback problem. But if it only shows one channel, then make sure your audio properties are set correctly. Control Panel>Sounds and Audio Devices Properties>Audio>Sound Recording. This may vary depending on your computer. Usually if you click on 'Volume' there, you will see the control panel. You may also have a speaker icon in your toolbar that you can right click on to get the same control panel. 'Line In' is usually what you are looking for.

[guns1inger]

If you demux the audio with virtualdub and open it in an audio editor, what do you see in each channel ?

[Lothar1974]

I know that my audio is setup correctly using line-in, I will have to try Gspot again. Will look at it tonight after work and post it. Thanks for the help guys!

[guns1inger]

G-spot will only tell you that you have a 2 channel audio track, however it wont tell you if both tracks actually have sound in them. You need to look at the audio track itself.