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XL1S - Audio - 4 Channel

wilky1974
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Nov 12, 2004, 4:04 PM

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I'm not yet very educated on all the terms and ways of using my XL1S. If you record in 4-channel, does that mean that when you capture the video/audio into your editing system, that it displays 4 different audio tracks?

If not, what does it really mean & do for you?

Bob Hudson
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Nov 12, 2004, 11:57 PM

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Check with your editing software but I believe that on the Mac you cannot capture four audio channels at once no matter what you use.

DonP
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Nov 13, 2004, 4:00 PM

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Re: [wilky1974] XL1S - Audio - 4 Channel [In reply to]	Can't Post

As Bob notes, it depends on your capture/editing software and settings. Some progarms can be set capture all four channels as separate WAV files, others as a combination of AVI and WAV files, still others cannot be set to capture the 3rd and 4th audio channel at all.

In any case, if you record 4-channel audio with the XL1s, the 4-channels of informtion will be in the firewire output data stream for capture during playback. It is up to the capture software to red it.