Premiere Elements Audio Mixing Question

[Hank Ebert]

My version of Premiere Elements (it's 3, I think) mixes both audio channels onto one line when I put the video clip onto the timeline. How can I separate the two mics and put them on two separate lines of audio? Thanks, Hank

[Ann Bens]

Premiere Pro has Break out to Mono. Don't think elements has that.
You could duplicate the track and use something like channel volume.

[Battle Vaughan]

This is off the top of my head but I think it will work.
Unlink the video and audio. (right click menu when you click on the video track)
Select the audio track and not the video track. Select copy.
In the far left side of the audio track, right click and select New Track if you have no empty audio tracks available.
Then paste the audio copy into an empty audio track.
In one track, select effects > audio,select the track and the Fill Left effect.
In the other audio track, do the same but select Fill Right effect.
In the Audio Mixer, pan one audio track all the way left. Pan the other track all the way right.
(What you should get is two stereo audio tracks, but one will have only the left channel info on both its tracks and one will have only right channel info on both its tracks.)

This is based on Elements 4, I assume these filters are in 3 as well.

[Hank Ebert]

Battle,

That's exactly what I needed to know. Thank you very much for taking the time to respond. Thanks to Ann also.

Hank