Nationalsolo

Hi Just had a go at creating the effect you are after and yes, you can do it... I am assuming you are going to use the sound from your video clip. So.. Open VP and load the video clip into the Media list and then right click it followed by the option "Save audio track as a separate file" The audio will then appear in the Media list. Right click the audio clip and then select "Edit in external editor". It should open up in Wavepad (might prompt you to load wavepqad if you don't have it already) In wavepad left click the Effects tab and select "Stereo pan" Now click the "Select preset" button followed by "Pan Left" and "Apply" Check it plays in the left channel and save to the desktop as "left.wav" Now go back to Videopad and repeat the procedure with the audio clip but this time in wavepad select "Pan right". save as "right.wav" You now have two sound bites on the desktop. (or whereever you decided to put them) Load them to the Media list and then drag them to Soundtrack 1 and soundtrack 2 respectively. Line them both up exactly with the audio track and then mute the video clip so only right.wav and left.wav will be heard when the project is played. (You can magnify the tracks to get the match exact using the slider at the bottom right of the screen.) Playing the clip at this point should produce a centralised sound effect, not a great deal different from the original (muted) track. Now, by carefully fading in or fading out the starts and finishes of the two tracks - obviously one will be the mirror of the other,- you can fairly easily get your panning sound effect to match the video clip. Note: You can click the respective sound track to display it in the left hand preview window and then click on and drag the horizonal yellow line up/down to control the position of and the levels of the audio in the clip. You don't have to use just the fade in/out options. You can create multiple audio levels in each clip. It might take a few attempts but it will work. Nat

Hi If I understand you correctly, you want a stero effect of the sound track moving left, presumably to match the visuals. and you have a mono sound. Track 1 and all the others, as far as I know, play in stereo and I don't think there is a function within VP to separate the channels left and right. No good trying to fade from one track to another as all you are doing is simply fading out/in both channels and there will be no effect. I think the only way you can do it is to use an external sound file program. Nat PS I manipulate my sound files with a program called XZoom which will enable me to split a mono channel sound into two channels and then after manipulation of the fades etc.allows me to save them back as a stereo signal.

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Hi Kylie75 Have a look at my other posting where I have suggested a quite good FREE converter program. As you are finding MPEG4 files a bit temperamental on your PC using VP (and I think any other editing program will be similar...I have tried several) Have a go at converting to MPEG2 format. Unless you are going to output to big HD TV screens you won't notice much difference..it's still HD. With this software you can simply try a different setting and find what looks best. It's pretty foolproof. Get it first and come back here if you are puzzled. The free software I have suggested works fine for me and is not difficult to run and the results seem OK. Nat

Hi It is quite possible to detach a sound bite and add it back on another track in any place you want and as many times as you want. Starting from square one......... Load your film clip to the Media List Right click on the clip IN THE MEDIA LIST WINDOW and select "Save audio track as a separate file" from the menu that appears. The audio track from the clip will be saved to the Media List as a separate file, and you can drag and drop it anywhere onto the Soundtrack 1 (or 2 or 3 etc) and drag it to any place you want. If you already have your video clip on the sequence line then you can split it as follows.. Switch into timeline mode and you will see your soundtrack beneath the film track. Left click on the clip where you want the split to occur.(Do this on the "seconds" line above the images) Now click the "Split" button on the left of the screen. Your film will split at the cursor point and the newly produced clip piece will preview in the left hand preview pane. If you now click on the small icon that looks like a piece of film below the preview image you can save the new clip. It will appear in the Media List window and you can separate the sound bite as described above. Note that there is no need to detach it from the original film clip (although if you do it makes it easier to see where you have sound and where you don't have sound.) If you want to keep the sound visible (even though you have copied it) but don't want it to play, then mute that particular clip.... Right click the Audio track of the clip in question and select "Adjust clip volume" from the menu. Now click the Mute box. Voila! Hope this helps. Nat