creating 1 channel WAV

[aria_5_5]

Hello, Please read below:

"You need to make sure Audacity is truly creating 1 channel WAV. Even though you selected Mono, it may be writing 2-channels, with 1 channel silenced."

Does anyone know how I can make sure that this isn't happening?!

Please help,
Thanks!

[Gale Andrews]

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Hello, Please read below:

"You need to make sure Audacity is truly creating 1 channel WAV. Even though you selected Mono, it may be writing 2-channels, with 1 channel silenced."

Where are you reading that exactly? What is the problem?

If you have a stereo track with two good left and right channels and you want to export it as mono, use Tracks > Stereo Track to Mono before you export.


Gale

[aria_5_5]

Thanks Gale,

I am using Windows 7 on a 64 bit operating system
Version of Audacity I have is 2.1.0 obtained with .exe installer

I am trying to create a DCP (Digital Cinema Package) using Open DCP. I need to be importing two 1 channel wav files for the left and right in order to create an audio MXF file. There is a conversion failure when I do this and that is where I am coming from.
The administrator from Open DCP has suggested that even though I have selected "split stereo to mono", Audacity may be writing 2 channels with one of the channels silenced...
I am wondering how I make sure the file is indeed only one channel?

Thanks
Christine

[kozikowski]

If you have several separate timelines, make sure the one you want says "Mono." Select it by clicking just above MUTE and File > Export Selected.

Koz

[Gale Andrews]

I am trying to create a DCP (Digital Cinema Package) using Open DCP. I need to be importing two 1 channel wav files for the left and right in order to create an audio MXF file. There is a conversion failure when I do this and that is where I am coming from.

Are you trying to make the two files for left and right into one mono file that contains a mix of left and right? If so you need to click in the name of the first track, "Make Stereo Track" then use Tracks > Stereo Track to Mono.

The other problem is the MXF format. Are you trying to get Audacity to write that? Audacity cannot do that unless you install FFmpeg ( http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... tml#ffdown ) and use "Custom FFmpeg Export" when you export.

And it probably won't work even if you do that - trying to do this with FFmpeg on its own (without Audacity), the messages seem to show that it requires a video file containing audio at 48000 Hz sample rate.


Gale