How to select left or right channel while playing video in QuickTime X?

I have recorded a TV movie with EyeTV and exported it to Apple TV format (M4v). In Germany often stereo movies have original soundtrack on right channel (e.g. English) and German soundtrack on left channel. With QuickTime 7 it was no problem to select the channels for playback. But with QuickTime X I cannot find this possibility anymore. Does anyone know how to select one of the stereo channels for playback? You can imagine that wihil playing German and English simultanously you cannot understand a word at all.

Thanks, but I actually do not want to remove a channel permanently, because I sometimes want to listen to the original English version and sometimes to the German version. But as it seems QuickTime X does not have the simple playback option to select a special channel, is this right? This is sad as I really like the features and the look of QuickTime X. It is not very comfortable to switch between two players just for the need of a channel selection. I hope that Apple will give us some more basic playback comfort in a version to come.

Similar Messages

How to generate a sound (tone) without clicking noise, and how to select left or right speaker

Hi All,
I am trying to write write a VI that generates a pure tone of specific frequency and volume, then sends that tone to one speaker or the other (Left or right) for use in teaching students about audiology (those hearing tests you may have taken where you hear a noise in one ear or the other). I have created a rather primitive VI to accomplish this, but I am plagued by a few issues:
1) At some frequencies but not all, the VI generates a clicking sound at the start and stop of the tone (I believe this is related to repeating configuration and call of the hardware, but I don't know how to set this up ahead of time and avoid it - and why doesn't it create the clicking sound at all frequencies?).
2) At some frequencies (14000Hz and higher), I don't hear the tone at all on my computer speakers (I still hear the click before and after, but I don't hear the tone. I know what you might be thinking, but no, this is not a hearing deficit on my part :-)
3) I would like to be able to direct the tone selectively to the left speaker or right speaker, but right now my VI only allows me to pick the "number of channels" (for which I presume "2 channels" means both left and right), but I don't know how to selectively pick only one channel or the other.
Thank you for any helpful suggestions you can offer,
Eric
Solved!
Go to Solution.
Attachments:
Audiograph_Erics version.vi ‏65 KB

Eric,
Yes, I intended to include an image. Sorry. Here it is.
Thanks for the subVI. With it I hear clicks most of the time except on some of the low amplitude outputs. Interestingly, at frequencies above 10 kHz where my hearing is poor, when I do hear something it is a non-pure sound with a dominant frequency lower than the generated frequency. I am not sure whether it is something in the sound system on my computer or in my ear/brain/mind acoustic analysis system. Here is what I get with my bad ears.
This is what the graph on Generate Sound-subVI shows when I hear the lower pitched sounds. Although the frequency is low enough that it is not aliased, I suspect that I am hearing the envelope rather than the underlying carrier.
I have not played with the windowing yet to see if that reduces the clicks. They could be generated by the Sound Write turning sound on and off.
Lynn

Selecting left or right channel?

Back in the day with earlier Audition versions, you could very easily select just the left or right channel by simply holding the left mouse button on the edge of the channel and selecting the area needed. Is there a way of enabling this feature in CS6? (Using edit->enable channels is too time consuming.)

It still does in CS6 and CC. Go to Preferences/General and enable "Allow Context-sensitive Channel Editing". It normally seems to on by default. Alternatively you have the L and R selection boxes on the right of the channel waveforms.

How to separate left and right channel in audiotracks

I would like to adjust audio tracks left and right channels separetly from each other. Now the volume levels are linked together. Is there a way to separate them?
Other question is ; for some reason the pan slider in viewer does not seem to have left/right affect but kind of mono/stereo affect. It is supposed to be so, or do I have some audio preference button in wrong position?
Message was edited by: TRST

To answer to myself: Go to the User Manual and read the Chapter Audio Editing Basics from page 425.
Or click the clip in timeline which you want to change, and go to Modify---> uncheck the stereo pair option in there.

How to separate left and right audio channels?

I've imported some AVCHD footage that had audio recorded separately to each channel, left and right. When I put a clip in my timeline, I can separate the audio tracks, but I can't edit them individually. When I bring down the level to 0db on one track and play the clip, the audio meter still shows equal levels on both left and right channels. Any advice?
Second question - I transcoded some AVCHD footage to MP4 and can't figure out if the audio tracks remain separte after the transcoding. I used Free MTS M2TS Converter to do the transcoding. While I can choose 'dual mono" for an AVCHD clip, I do not have that same option for the MP4 clip. It offers me "6 mono" but not dual mono. Any advice?
My concern is that when I provide my clients with raw MP4 footage with right and left audio recorded separately, that they'll be able to edit each track individually.
Thanks!

Thanks Tom. I recorded 2-channel audio, not 5.1 surround. Six mono was only an option on the MP4 clip. I did change the channel configuration from stereo to dual mono on the AVCHD clip, but I still wasn't able to edit the audio independently. Even when I mute one track, the audio meter still shows equal left and right levels.

How do I apply effects equally to the left and right channels.

I am an intermittent user of Sound Track Pro. I've made some cool audio beds with it in the past but right now I'm having two problems since I have not used it in so long and never was pro with it to begin with.
1. Seems like the lift and stamp tool only works in multi-track mode and not in the wave editor.
2. so I put my file in the wave editor to redo the effects from scratch there but now I don't know how to apply them equally to the left and right channels.

Thank you! One more question: I've got quite a bit of interview tape and would like to increase the playback speed to 1.5X or 1.75 x so that I can get through everything faster. Is there a way to set it at those tempos? I only see the 2X, 4X, 6X, etc. options, but these are too fast and I can't understand what is being said. Is there a way to set this to 1.5X the original speed?
Thanks!

How to divide audio in Left and Right Channel?

Hi there,
I want to divide audiofiles into the left and right channel, but I keep forgetting the shortcut.
Can anyone give me the shortcut again?
Thanks a lot

If you have two audio clips of the same duration, you can select (highlight) both, then hit Option l (lowercase L) to make them a stereo pair. The pan will be set to -1 indicating that channel 1 will be routed to the left output channel and channel 2 will be routed to the right output channel.
-DH

How to set audio instruments to record in left and right channels

I am a new Logic express user. I am using a PreSonus FireWire to in put guitars and mic's. If I use Logic Express to record my guitars from input 1 I only get sound out of the right channel. If I use input 2 I only get sound out of the left channel. If I use the Garage Band tab to input the same instruments plugged into either channels 1 or 2 on my PreSonus I get sound from both the left and right channels together. There must be a simple fix I am missing in Logic. If anyone can help me I would I would appreciate it.

Hi t,
welcome to the forum!
There's nothing wrong with your set-up!
MONO inputs to mono tracks,
from the mono track you can add mono to stereo plug-ins and benefit from that.
In garage band you have a mono input that showing a stereo channel, that's what what I have explain above. In Logic it's a blody waste of HD space (not to say wrong) as you recording a mono file to stereo.
Think bigger and pratical now T, those things make all the sence,
GB is so easy that can confuse us about the real thing because it's hidden from your eyes.
Kindly regards,
Jorge

Editing Left Or Right Channel Individualy

OK- so this is the first updated version of Cool Edit I have used since 2.0 (Prior to Adobe's acquisition)
What am I doing wrong? Why cant I edit the Left or Right channel independently from one and other?
In Cool Edit you could just click on the individual channel and select it .... Whats the Trick With SoundBooth?

I am looking to do the exact same thing as Nathan and I have read the response. However, being a novice to this, I have no idea how to implement what you are suggesting.
I have tried using the help system, for Soundbooth on my Mac, but that doesn't tell me anything.
Can you give me a few more detailed steps on how to (simply) insert a 1/100th of a second silence into the beginning of either left or right track?
I've just spent over two VERY frustrating hours trying to do this. Like Nathan I had also used Cool Edit on my PC (before I dumped it to buy a Mac) and had done this with great ease previously.
Peter

I'm using GarageBand 10.0.1. Do the built-in drum tracks only come in mono format, or is it possible to make them true stereo (i.e. Left and Right channels outputing different signals, to sound like the kit has been panned across the stereo field)?

I'm using GarageBand 10.0.1. Do the built-in drum tracks only come in mono format, or is it possible to make them true stereo (i.e. Left and Right channels putting out different signals, to sound like the kit has been panned across the stereo field)?

All the Drum Kits available for GarageBand are mixed in stereo.
Logic provides the same 18 Drum Kits also as "Producer Kits", which are multi-track outputs,. Each Drum Kit Piece (Kick, Snare, HH, etc) and also room mice and overheads are routed to individual channel strips.
Here is a screenshot of one Drum Kit in Logic Pro X with individual Channels Strips. Each Channel Strip can be loaded with individual effects (compressor) and adduced with individual sends, etc.
What that means is that all the Drummers are professionally recorded and sampled with individual mics. The Stereo Drums Kits are just "stereo mix-downs" for easier handling and less CPU demand. I explain all the details about the Drummer ecosystem in my graphically enhanced manual "GarageBand X - How it Works"
Hope that helps
Edgar Rothermich
http://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals/
'I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.'

I would like to transfer old reel-to-reel tapes to an iMac. There are different recordings on the left and right channel of the tapes. When I connect the tape deck to the Mac, I get one recording on the left, the other on the right speaker. What to do?

I was about to transfer some music from a reel-to-reel machione to my Mac. There are different sound recordings on the left and right channels. When I connect with RCA cables and Y-connector, I hear one recording from the left speaker, another from the right side. How do I record only one side, but hear it from both speakers?
Detlef

You don't say what end, or connectors are plugged into what. I'm assuming the RCA connectors are on the reel-to-reel end. Since the tape has two different mono recordings, one on each track, you of course only want one at a time during playback. Otherwise, the Mac (or any recording setup) can only treat it as a stereo recording with the standard Left-Right tracks.
1) There are multiple ways to connect different types of cables to get a mono signal down to a stereo output at the Mac. Here's one way.
2) Plug any RCA cable (single cable or stereo) into only the right or left RCA output of the reel-to-reel.
3) On the other end of the RCA cable, plug in an adapter like this. That will feed the single RCA output into a mono 1/8" plug.
4) Then plug that adapter into this. That turns the 1/8" mono signal into a "stereo" output with the same single track audio being fed to the Mac on both the left and right channels.
5) Record either the left or right output of the reel-to-reel. Rewind the tape and switch the RCA connector on the reel-to-reel to the right channel (if you started with the left) and record that mono signal as stereo.
Or, avoid all of this hardware mumbo-jumbo in the first place and do this:
1) Record the audio just the way you have it. Two different recordings, one on each channel.
2) Copy the audio recording to a new name and open it in your editor.
3) Highlight the left track and copy/paste it into the right track. Presto! Mono recording of the left track on both channels. Save the recording.
4) Repeat, only copy/pasting the right track into the left track and save the second recording.

How to split left and right sound signal from SI READ Stereo?

How to split left and right sound signal from SI READ Stereo?
I want to display the left and right sound signal in two graph separately,what shall I do?
That is how to split 2D arry to two 1D arry?

Hello,
Here's another trick...although the "Index Array" suggestion will work, you should investigate using the "Delete from Array" function...you can tell it to delete one of the columns (or rows), leaving one column (or row)...the function will output both the resulting array AND the deleted array, which happens to be the other row/column...this method might not be as intuitive, but it only makes one copy of data in memory, while the Index Array method makes two copies.
I hope this suggestion helps. I only found out about this trick with "Delete from Array" the other day.
Have a great weekend!
Sincerely,
Darren Nattinger
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
Darren Nattinger, CLA
LabVIEW Artisan and Nugget Penman

? how to add page numbers in pages 5.2, starting with 2. Pages '09 had an option to not show folio on page one. Also any how to do left and right folios for a Tabloid? Many trhanks

? how to add page numbers in pages 5.2, starting with page 2. Pages '09 had an option to not show folio on page one. Also any idea how to do left and right folios for a Tabloid? Many thanks . . .

Hello jacquemac,
Your first question:
There might be a better way of achieving what you wish to do, but following these steps could help you out.
You might want to blend in Thumbnails and Invisibles either with (cmd+shift+i and cmd+alt+p) or over the View section in the Menubar.
1. go for Documents (right end of the Toolbar) -> Section
2. place your cursor at the very top of your second page and click "Create new Section->Starting with this page" in the side bar on your right.
(what you are actually doing next is setting the pagenumbers for each section you created. You can see your sections in the Thumbnail view.)
3. click on your first page (the first and only page of your first section) and mark the checkbox "Hide on first page of section"
4. click on your second page (the first page of your second section) and "Insert page number" -> start at 1
Your second question:
Im not quite sure i understand what exactly you want to do here. One page, two columns, each column with another page number? As far as i know this is not possible.
greetings jl

Splitting left and right channel

I need to split the left and right channels of the audio output. I have a stereo cable from my new HP Pavilion 15 Notebook PC, running Windows 7 Home Premium, to an amp that takes the channels separately. The amp allows me to control the volume for the channels separately. This does not work on my new laptop. I get both channels on both ends of the cable.
I have an older HP G60 Notebook PC, running Windows 7 Home Premium, and the same cable and same amp does just what I need.
Is there a way to configure the audio out port in my new PC so it works like the audio out port on my old PC?
Vomocid

floorjam wrote:
Hello - what is the best way to swap left and right channels on a master?
If I use the direction mixer and reverse the phase is that effectively what's
happening?
No, not at all. Reversing the phase will not swap anything, it'll just reverse the phase.
Use the Gain plugins' Swap button for that. The Gain plugin is under {inserts}>Utility>Gain

How long is the iPad battery last while watching video on YouTube with 3G?

How long is the iPad2 battery last while watching video on YouTube with 3G?

My iPad 2 battery can use only ~7 hours 15mins when surfing the web using cellular data network. Is it normal?
I would say that's normal. Cellular uses more power than wifi. Your screen brightness is also a factor. Lower the screen brightness & battery will last longer.
The quickest way (and really the only way) to charge your iPad is with the included 10W USB Power Adapter. iPad will also charge, although more slowly, when attached to a computer with a high-power USB port (many recent Mac computers) or with an iPhone Power Adapter (5W). When attached to a computer via a standard USB port (most PCs or older Mac computers) iPad will charge very slowly (but iPad indicates not charging). Make sure your computer is on while charging iPad via USB. If iPad is connected to a computer that’s turned off or is in sleep or standby mode, the iPad battery will continue to drain.
Apple recommends that once a month you let the iPad fully discharge & then recharge to 100%.
At this link http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/galaxy-tab-android-tablet,3014-11.html , tests show that the iPad 2 battery (25 watt-hours) will charge to 90% in 3 hours 1 minute. It will charge to 100% in 4 hours 2 minutes. The new iPad has a larger capacity battery (42 watt-hours), so using the 10W charger will obviously take longer. If you are using your iPad while charging, it will take even longer. It's best to turn your new iPad OFF and charge over night. Also look at The iPad's charging challenge explained http://www.macworld.com/article/1150356/ipadcharging.html
Also, if you have a 3rd generation iPad, look at Apple: iPad Battery Nothing to Get Charged Up About
http://allthingsd.com/20120327/apple-ipad-battery-nothing-to-get-charged-up-abou t/
Apple Explains New iPad's Continued Charging Beyond 100% Battery Level
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/27/apple-explains-new-ipads-continued-charging- beyond-100-battery-level/
 Cheers, Tom

How to select left or right channel while playing video in QuickTime X?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for