Sorry about the newbie question but I can't work this one out.

When I plug my external microphone into my camcorder, I only record sound in one channel and can only hear one channel in the headphones.

The microphone has a 6.3mm mono plug which I have inserted into a 6.3mm - 3.5mm adapter to fit the camcorder. I've tried adapters with mono and stereo 3.5mm jacks but always get just one channel recording.

It's only a bog-standard Panasonic NV-GS11EB MiniDV Digital Video Camera but surely I should be able to record to both channels.

Any help appreciated.

The external microphone is mono, not stereo.

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So it's my understanding that's wrong then ...... I always believed mono would simply broadcast the same audio out of BOTH channels. After all, if I play a mono recording on my CD player, it still comes out of both speakers, not just one.

Nikosony is right. To have your audio played from both speakers, you will need to do this in post production in your editing software.

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Is there a way of "flattening" this audio in Windows Movie Maker ? I'm struggling to find one at the moment.

I do have other software such as MPEG Movie Maker and TMPGEnc but I keep getting lip-sync problems with these so I'm currently stuck with the Windows software. Is there any encoding software that will do it ? I've got SUPER and ImToo but can't find a way of flattening the audio there either.

Hey,

you can get an adapter from maplin which will convert your mono signal into a stereo one. £1.29 - bargain!

Maplin > 3.5mm Stereo Plug to 3.5mm Mono Socket Adaptor

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..... but I've already used a 6.3mm to 3.5mm stereo jack adapter so why would this be any different ?

maybe its stereo to mono not the other way round. this happened to me recently when the girl at maplin gave me the wrong part. the part i gave the link for is definately the right adapter

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