How do I split stereo audio strip to 2 separate mono strips?
I want to be able to choose left or right channel for my clips because we filmed on 2 mics. I have 100 clips so exporting audio, moving it to audacity, spliting in audacity, importing to blender will be hell lot of work.
I know there is “mono” option is settings of a strip but it doesn’t do what I want since I can’t pick left or right channel there it forces mixing both together which is completely useless for me.
I tried some other open source video editor, called shotcut, but it is horrible and lacks basic functionality.
How do I split stereo audio strip to 2 separate mono strips?
AFAIK all you can do is import as a stereo pair then pan them hard left and right. If you send them to their own scenes, you could add the them back as a scene strip then re-pan them centre?
It seems that Blender is expecting that your file is either mono single track OR stereo two track (and maybe surround but I can’t test that).
You can pan a mono track but not a stereo track, so cannot mute a stereo side.
I think that the best work around for you would be to batch process the video clips with ffmpeg into separate sound tracks per track of audio. You could then use a script to import them into Blender (a clip per scene) with their video. Do the mix in that scene, then send it to your master edit scene as a strip. Turn on Use Sequence in the strip properties for overall volume control.
Alternatively you could collapse the multiple strips into a MetaStrip, but this way there is no access to overall volume.