 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. I recorded a video earlier today with my Canon XC40 Pro camcorder and I was showing how to record two XLR microphones at once and I used two channel audio. Now what I explained was that the way this is going to come into your video editor and of course this is a Caden live video so that's the one that I use on Ubuntu Linux. You're gonna get one microphone on each channel left and right. Now this isn't just how it works on my particular camcorder. This is a pretty common modern feature or workflow. I don't know what the best way to describe it is that if you have a dual wireless lab system, a common feature as you'll see, well, you'll be able to, it'll write each microphone of two microphones onto one stereo channel left and right and the idea is that when you're in post-production you can separate that into two files, one for each microphone and then work accordingly. So you might want to mute someone's mic at a certain point, gain someone's mic, etc. Now the question I had, well, what am I gonna do in Caden live? So you can see what I have currently here on my editing timeline. This is the file I got for my camera. There's nothing really exciting going on here. I'm tapping on the shotgun microphone here. That's why you see these waveforms on the top and at the bottom of the lab work. Now, how to even get to this point? It's important to know. You need to right-click on the audio icon and click on separate channels. Otherwise, this is how it looks by default, one waveform and you're going to totally miss the fact that you've got two different left and right channels that are not their different microphones as you can see here. So that's step number one. Now I'm going to just explain the workflow using a plugin I've just discovered in Caden live, not saying that it's the only workflow, but this does work for me. So let me just explain what I have here at the top channel. That's the one in blue. That is the stereo. Sorry, that is a shotgun microphone. And that's why I did this tapping thing. When I'm tapping on it, you can see those waveforms. So the bottom one is the lavalier microphone. So to avoid confusion, it's really useful that you have this labeling feature. So I'm gonna actually go ahead and label this. Shotgun, shotgun. And then I'm going to ungroup and I'm going to copy over just the audio channel into audio channel two. I'm going to keep it in sync, but I'm going to call this lavalier. I always call it lavalier. I've been told the correct pronunciation is lavalier because it's presumably it's a French word. All right, now we need to apply the effects. What we're going to do is look for type into the search bar. Now, I had to search for this by default. When I go into my effects menu in audio correction, I don't have this. I only have these. So search for a stereo if you want and you'll get a whole bunch of features in here. So the one you want, what we're trying to do really is stereo to mono if you think about it. So stereo to mono and we have here stereo to mono and this is really easy. So just think about what we want to do here. So we've got our shotgun microphone only on the left channel. So we want to actually copy that left channel over to the right channel. So just leave it like that. OK, copying our left channel, which is our shotgun over to the right channel. So we're overriding the audio that was being collected from the lavalier. And that way we're going to end up with a stereo audio feed just of the shotgun mic. Now, the really cool thing I'm going to move this audio track out of the way for a second is that after I play the plug in, so the tapping now should be audible. It's very audible. Watch what happens if I change the direction. In other words, if we say, let's copy right onto left, that's going to be moving the lavalier microphone onto the track currently holding the information from the shotgun mic and therefore giving us a sort of pseudo stereo track just with the lab mic. It's barely audible. Now, if I was doing this video as best as I could, I would have been routing. So basically, this will apply your changes in real time, which is great, so that when you're editing, you can cut and change accordingly. Now, all we need to do here, I'm going to bring this guy back. And we actually were simply going to, I'm going to make sure this guy's in my favourites, because it's going to be very, very useful to me for now on. I'm going to drag and drop the plug in again and going to do the opposite. This time I want to take the right channel and put it on to duplicate that over to the left channel. So now that's the process finished I have on the top channel. Now, it doesn't show up on the waveform doesn't update, as you may notice automatically. In other words, now that the plug-ins being changed, it should be showing the same waveform for this one left to right. We should be seeing the left below and vice versa. So that's one, I would say, I guess almost flaw. What you can do is turn off the separate channels feature if you find that less distracting. But if you listen back to it, you can make those changes and that's just one way doing it. So if you're working with two microphones in Caden live and you're using a dual lab system or whatever kind of microphone system, and its feature is that it writes each microphone onto a separate stereo track, one microphone onto left channel, one microphone onto right channel. You don't need to export into audacity and, you know, convert stereo to mono and re-import, which is a tedious process. You can simply do this by using the stereo to mono plug-in and separating each microphone onto its own stereo track that way. A couple of the negative I found is that you don't see it in the waveform, but you can just listen with your monitor headphones. And edit accordingly. And I think that's pretty much all there is to say about it. So really useful if you're doing multi-mic production. I hope this was useful. If you want to get more video from me, please feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel.