Audio coming out of one speaker?

[jakenbocker]

I am doing student interviews at my college for a class project. I am using a shotgun mic mounted on a boom pole for audio connected directly my HV30 (dangerous, I know). The thing is, when I get the audio into my editing software (Final Cut Express), the audio only comes out of one speaker.

The main thing I am trying to get out of this thread is to find out if this is a camera problem or not. I am relatively inexperienced with digital video/audio, so I am just trying to figure out if my problem lies with my camera, my mic, or something else. If all I found out is that it is not the camera, that is fine. But if anyone else has any other ideas/tips, please let me know. Thank you!

[Daniel Rutter]

I'm not sure if Final Cut Express allows this, but just duplicate the sound track, and map it to the other speaker? Its a good way to fake "stereo" sound from Mono microphones.

[um3k]

It's fairly normal, a lot of shotgun mics output audio that way. Like Daniel Rutter said, just duplicate the audio into the other channel.

[drapeama]

Wouldn't this duplicate the actual mono input into fake stereo output?
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[jakenbocker]

Ok, thanks guys! Glad to find out that it's normal for this to happen. I will try to duplicating technique. Thanks again!

- Jakenbocker

[Janke]

Even simpler than duplicating, is to doubleclick your sound to open the sound window, then drag the channel balance (PAN slider) to mid-position zero...