Working with mono and stereo tracks

- There are times where you bring in clips,…and there is a pair of audio tracks.…Sometimes it should be stereo,…sometimes we only want one of the two,…let's see how the inspector permits us to use that.…One place that causes a lot of confusion for people…is when they come in and they're dealing with a clip…that has, say, dual capture.…The idea that it was captured, say, on the camera,…and with a loft mic,…or with a loft and a boom,…or maybe with a true stereo mic.…These items often get recognized…like this one here as stereo,…and it's really not a stereo clip.…

If I choose here to expand the components on the timeline,…let's zoom in,…let's hide our effects here,…let's look at this only as audio…so I'm going to go ahead and choose…just show me the audio of these clips.…Let's make them a little bit larger there.…When I right-click on this,…I can say expand the audio,…and there you see the audio of Ron,…but if he's got more than one audio component,…I can right-click and say expand the audio components.…That's showing you that it's just got this one piece.…