 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosalier. I want to record a video today about the Canon XA40 Pro Camcorder. Now what I'm doing with these videos, I'm learning to use this camera. I've had it for a few weeks. I think it's absolutely amazing. A huge upgrade on the consumer camera. I'm recording this video on. Nevertheless, there are some things that are a little bit confusing about it and as I make mistakes I am putting up these videos to try help other people show what I did wrong. So here's what went wrong last night. I went to shoot a few videos and I used an XLR reporters microphone. So I go into my editing software Caden live and I'm like hey, there's only one channel. There's only a right channel audio showing up and I used a That shouldn't happen in any event, right? I used it. It doesn't matter if it's a mono or stereo microphone I think But you should have audio on both channels left and right. So what went wrong is as follows So let's firstly talk about the XLR audio features on this camera So on the top handle you have two X at our ports and they're labeled input one and input two It's really worth remembering I'm always gonna I always connect them sequentially. So I'm always putting I'm I've never used I don't think I'm ever gonna be using two XR mics simultaneously So I'm just remembering input one is the one Towards the lens and input one is the one back from the lens Now on the other side of the top handle in your control panel you have here your controls for There is firstly an on-off switch and that's actually relevant to both of The XLRs and then you have gain trims for each one separately and then you have this little toggle that's going to toggle you between your 48 volts Regular and that's lying in if you're using a pre-mix signal and this is labeled input one input two So if you want to just remember input one is towards the lens and input one is towards the top so What I'm gonna do now is go ahead and connect a microphone an extra microphone I'm using today doesn't really matter what I'm using for demo, but I'm just using a Comica if I can get the table cable untangled. I'm using a comica XLR microphone, right? So I'm gonna just put the camera down momentarily while I go and jam this into the There we go. All right. So now I have my lavalier microphone connected into input one Now let's just check out the menus and you can see what I did wrong yesterday Okay, it's gonna take us a second Alrighty so why are we not why are we not getting levels? Oh, we are so firstly you want to just set this up right? So I'm just gonna make sure I'm using 48 volts Phantom power I'm gonna open up the Hoods here, and I'm gonna use auto gain control for this particular Experiment so Mike's connected to input one. I've whoops. Okay. I've now changed the I've now moved that from off to on and I'm using 48 volts by moving by adjusting this to the right Okay, so we can see our levels are predictably a little bit all over the place because I'm really really up close But I'm just gonna make sure this is coming from the lab Yep, as I'm tapping the lavalier microphone, you can see that those levels are jumping now Let's get let's get to the point of this. Here's what you want to go and do you want to go into your menu and you Want to jump over to audio? First thing you're gonna see in your audio You've got three tabs in audio and the first tab says channel to input and this is where I went wrong But I think by default it's set to input to I'm gonna set to input to that means that you're gonna be opening up two channels and Each XLR ports can be writing through its own channel. Therefore, even if you've got a stereo microphone It's gonna be writing on to just one of those channels. So what you want to do is this is like writing Channel to input is gonna be also coming from input one. Okay, so our input one Just think about this logically is going to left channel right channel X died of it and now you can see I'm just kind of trying to get up to the meter here. You can see that the microphone is Both levels and you can actually tell that it's a stereo Mic, I think because they're not perfectly in sync, but whatever now watch what's gonna happen if I do as follows I'm gonna click on menu. I'm gonna go into and by the way this menu will only light up when you've got the mic Connected I'm gonna go channel to input and I'm gonna put this on to input to And now look at what's happened to our level meter is there's nothing on channel to and channel one is recording now If I recorded like this and I didn't so if somehow forgot to pay attention to looking at the level meter What's gonna happen is I'm gonna go into my editing software like I just did and I'm gonna find that it's There is nothing on the right channel that you can fix that in post But you know why put yourself to the trouble now I flipped it back and now we're getting our levels on channel one and channel two there you go That's pretty much all you need to know. So just remember I'm gonna turn off the camera now Input one is the input to towards the lens side of the top handle and On the control panel channel one is the one at the top and channel two is one at the bottom Make sure if you're using XLR audio that this is set to on If you want to use automatic gain control over on the right if you want to swap to manual Move that over to the left and then you use this Little gain trim to control the levels manually and then finally you've got your 48 volt phantom power or regular Microphone or pre-mix line in on the right and I think that's pretty much all there is to say on the matter Hope this was a use to somebody fun to get more videos for me. Please subscribe to this YouTube channel