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Mono sound won't play back on movie made in iMovie.

  • 24-02-2007 11:51pm
    #1
    HQvhs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 313 ✭✭


    I've searched the internet including Apple's imovie support forum but I can't find any answer to this. So I was wondering could anyone here help as you all helped me on other issues I've had!

    I made a movie using imovie and some sound was recorded on a mic in mono. I put this in over the video and put some stereo background music over it.
    I then burned this to a dvd using idvd.
    The movie worked fine when I played it back off imovie and quicktime on my mac and its external and internal speakers. It also worked using a fairly old dvd player and also when I played the dvd on my macbook. Therefore I though the dvd was fine but I gave a copy of it to someone else and they said that they couldnt hear the voices which were recorded in mono, only the stereo background music. They said they were playing it on their mac but didnt say what model. I though this was really weird and I'm still confused about what caused it.

    Does anyone have any idea what caused this and how I could fix it?
    I'm more interested in what caused it so that I can stop it happening again next time.

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    Sounds to me like the DVD is fine.

    The problem is with the playback setup in my opinion.

    If they are trying to play it back using some form of pseudo wide stereo player then the phasing used may cause the mono channel to cancel out as it's the same on each of the L and R channels. Another possibility is that they are playing it through a 5.1 system with the center speaker turned down. My final thought would be this: The mono audio is inserted only on the left OR right channel and they are playing it back on a TV with only the one channel connected or on a mono TV.

    After that the only thing is to go and see for yourself.

    ZEN


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