Discover the intricacies of audio editing with "Fill Right with Left and Fill Left with Right" effects, essential for optimizing dialogue and sound quality. Learn how to identify and replace poor-quality audio to create a fuller, more balanced output.
Key Insights
- The tutorial focuses on the audio effect "Fill Right with Left and Fill Left with Right", used to improve sound quality.
- The effect is beneficial when there's a difference in the quality of sound between the left and right channels as it allows for replacing the poorer quality audio.
- In the case discussed, the right channel had static sound and the left had good quality sound, so the left channel was used to replace the right.
- Upon applying the effect, the audio output becomes fuller and the audio meters reflect identical sounds on both channels.
- Although the waveforms do not visually reflect the change, the improved sound quality indicates the effect is working.
- This audio effect is particularly useful when editing dialogue or any audio where sound quality significantly impacts the result.
This lesson on the Video Effect “Fill left with right, Fill right with left” allows you to correct troublesome audio. Often one audio channel is not as good as the other; this video allows you to repair this problem
Video Transcription
Hi, this is Margaret from Noble Desktop. Today, we're going to look at the audio effect "Fill Right with Left and Fill Left with Right". Let's listen to the song. I see one waveform is different from the other. One looks like it might be static sound and one looks like it might be good quality. I can remove the poor audio and have both channels be the good sound. It's like your headphones' right and left side, or your right and left speakers. Maybe you have camera audio with a lavalier mic or a Zoom mic. One of these sources is going to be of higher quality than the other.
I'm going to take the left channel all the way down, so now I'm only going to hear the right channel. Let me put that back. I'm going to take away the right channel and just hear the left. It sounds like the right channel is just static, so I can replace it with the left.
Let's make sure. I take away the left channel and I only hear the right side, and that's just static. So, I'm going to take away the right channel. In the effects, I'm going to write the word "left". I see "Fill Left with Right" and "Fill Right with Left". In this case, I'm going to fill the right with the left because the left is a good audio.
I'm going to double-click on that and play it. It sounds much fuller. You'll also notice the audio meters are reflecting both, they are completely identical. The waveforms don't reflect this change, but don't think of it as it's not working—clearly, it is working. This will come in handy particularly with dialogue.
I hope you've enjoyed this lesson on Fill Right with Left and Fill Left with Right. This has been Margaret with Noble Desktop.