Thanks, that is partially what I was looking for. After I get the audio and video on separate tracks, I need both of my audio tracks to have their own tracks. I'm trying to eliminate the need of swapping between my audio tracks constantly.

@Tom-Essex, @CubeAce, @browj2

Hi

. . . . I need both of my audio tracks to have their own tracks  I'm trying to eliminate the need of swapping between my audio tracks constantly. . . .

In addition to @CubeAce comment, the 'switch between each track' would suggest the source video has 2 or more audio streams, eg for different languages.

In which case VPX can extract and allow editing ot the individual streams, and, if required, split each stereo stream to L/R channels, see image below of a video file with 4 audio streams, the first audio stream I have split to L/R channels.

Added: If you are creating DVD/Blu-ray disc with selectable audio streams, VDL only uses the selected audio stream ie there is no Audio menu to switch audio streams, VPX does create an Audio menu automatically when switching to the Burn tab.

John EB
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@Tom-Essex

Hi,

I'm still not sure about what your problem is. Do you have multiple streams as indicated by @johnebaker? If so, it would have been helpful to have indicated that at the beginning as this is not something that most users have or do.

If you have multiple streams, here is how to handle them in Video Deluxe (aka Movie Edit Pro, Magix Movie Studio).

For VPX:

If you created your video with multiple audio streams using OBS, then you may also want to check that there is constant frame rate, not variable, using MediaInfo. Actually, check anyways, as most video editing programs do not like variable frame rate videos and you may have further problems.

John CB

It sounds to me like @Tom-Essex is talking in a Vegas dialect, since he has come from MS 17. No offence intended, Tom; your "upgrade" is actually a totally different program. A great program, but very different, nevertheless.

Thanks, that is partially what I was looking for. After I get the audio and video on separate tracks, I need both of my audio tracks to have their own tracks. I'm trying to eliminate the need of swapping between my audio tracks constantly.

@Tom-Essex Magix Movie Studio 2025 - Try this -

If you have two separate audio channels on the same track, duplicate the audio tracks,
Then right click on each - Audio cleaning - Stereo fx - Left/Right channel only.

This is what this file I created looks like in Vegas, (I don't think you can make the audio show as different waves in MMS, it'll just look like duplicated audio as in the pic above)

I don't play with audio much but if anyone wants to try this file - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OrrGssk3tnyyP3gpx3-6BIpCv2BboA9u/view?usp=sharing

@Gid

Hi,

Good example, but I don't think that this is what the OP is talking about.

It all gets a bit complicated.

Your example is one that has separate audio on each of the left and right channels, but there is only one track. When there is multichannel audio in a video file, the terminology gets a bit confusing. If you look at my videos and at @johnebaker's image, you'll see two separate "channels," and each of those can be stereo, that is, each with left and right channels. So, when put on the timeline in VPX, you get two stereo tracks, each with different audio.

We aren't sure what the OP has.

In your example, the left channel has the narration, the right channel has music. They have not been mixed together. When you export that as you show, you still end up with the same thing - narration on the left, music on the right, no mixing as one would normally do.

If you watch the meters, you will see that you don't have stereo on each of your tracks.

Instead of "left channel only" then "right channel only," use "both channels left" for the track that will have the left channel (narration), and "both channels right" for the track that will have right channel (music). Now you can mix them together so that you get narration and music on each of the left and right channels. You can use pan in the mixer on each track to have more or less of that track coming from one speaker than the other.

For example, if one track was just a singer and the other a guitar player and the singer was sitting at the left of the screen and the guitar player at the right, you would pan the singer's audio a bit to the left and the guitar player's audio a bit to the right, which gives you both the singer and the guitar coming out of both speakers. But, in order to do this, you first have to get the audio for both on the left and right channels of two audio tracks.

I show this in the image below using your audio as an example.

To get the waveform for each of the left and right channels, I mixed down each separately, restored the audio from the video (then separated back onto tracks 2 and 3) and reopened the project (after deleting the temporary files) to get the waveforms for tracks 4 and 5, which I left on the tracks just for reference. If you were to open each of these two wave files in Vegas, you'd see that the same audio is on both left and right channels for each file. Now they could be properly mixed together.

Also in the image, I show in the mixer that track 2 is panned to the left and track 3 to the right. In your example, I wouldn't do that as I would want both to have the same output on each of the left and right speakers. However, the volume of the narration is much lower than the music as can be seen by the waveforms, so I would raise the volume of the narration and lower the volume of the music, either in the mixer or on the audio object.

For your example, I left the pan as shown, moved the mixed down audio to tracks 2 and 3, normalized track 2 which raised the volume by 14.1 dB, reduced the gain in the mixer for track to by 2 dB, and reduced the gain of track 3 by 12 dB (the music was 0.2 dB below the top so no need to normalize). The final result is -14.3 LUFS and a maximum peak of -2.1 dB, so ready for YouTube.

Final result:

The final audio is here.

Here are the mixed down audio files for narration and music - each file is now in stereo.

John CB

I need both of my audio tracks to have their own tracks. I'm trying to eliminate the need of swapping between my audio tracks constantly.

@browj2

As you say 'We aren't sure what the OP has'.
Reading this thread everybody has jumped to the conclusion that the OP has a multi channel video, you may all be right but the OP states 'both' maybe implying only two channels, poss only reg stereo (they refer to everything as tracks which confuses things).
My example was just showing how two channels Left & Right can be separated in MMS & I used two completely different types of audio, music & speech to exemplify the difference between each channel.
I intentionally made my channels mono & if I wanted to I could have created a multi channel video with 4 or more tracks, stereo, mono, whatever but that wasn't the aim of my post.

@Gid

As I said, yours was a good example.

I have recorded similar audio. I recorded the singer on the left channel, the guitarist on the right using an audio interface that only had left and right channels, connected to the computer by USB. So, the mic was plugged in to the left channel, the guitar in to the right channel. On the computer, I had to separate file that was on one audio track onto 2 stereo tracks and treat them about as I described.

As far as I know, in video editors, there really is no mono track as audio tracks are stereo by default. To record as mono, which is what I do in VPX or VDL, I set the switch to mono in the recording settings (legacy). The result is a stereo file with identical audio on both L and R channels even though my mic is plugged in to the left channel of my audio interface.

John CB

@Tom-Essex

Hi

As you can see you have been given possible solutions for different scenarios for the audio.

Which scenario matches the video file audio 'tracks' you are working with?

John EB

Cubeace nailed it, thank you everyone for the thought and input!

@Tom-Essex

Thanks for the feedback.

John EB