Multi-channel Audio Recording

I am using a Canon XL1s and recording to 4 audio channels. On Location recognizes this and says it is capturing all 4 channels. But how do I access the 3/4 channels after recording? Channels 1/2 are the only ones that play back.

OnLocation currently records only 2 channels of audio. It looks like you found a bug in that the metadata shows 4 channels even though only two are preserved.

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