5.1 sound instead of stereo

My camera (Sony HDR-SR11) records the sound in normal stereo.
Also my prroject is regarded to be in stereo.
However when I import my footage, 5.1 tracks are created.
The properties of my clips are on the attachment.
I should do something wrong, but I can't discover what.
Where am I supposed to make a mistake?
Rob

Hi, Harm. You helped me once before and I'd like to ask if you could help me again. I have two concerns:
1) I did an interview on video not long ago, using a Sony PD 150 camcorder. When it came to edit the video footage and I imported it into CS4, I found that the sound was a little low. I couldn't increase the volume enough the usual way (by raising that little line on the sound track in the timeline) and was wondering if there was another way to do that.
2) I checked the inteview footage the other day and found that, whereas the video is OK, the sound has disappeared completely! The line on the soundtrack in the timeline, the one that is usually squiggly with the sine wave, is now completely flat. Do you know how or why that happened and is there any way to get the sound back?
Many thanks!
Lewis
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:26:33 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: 5.1 sound instead of stereo
It should not be a problem, only optically, but you can try to just delete the 5.1 tracks.
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