# Mono audio to Stereo in Windows Movie Maker

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 12, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mono-audio-to-stereo-in-windows-movie-maker/224087 "2004-01-12T01:12:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Civil\_Defense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Civil\_Defense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Defense)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mono-audio-to-stereo-in-windows-movie-maker/224087/1 "2004-01-12T01:12:04Z")

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Okay… I had a VHS tape I wanted to convert to DV-AVI format on my computer. So I used the only VCR I had handy, which only had one audio input to go from the VCR to my DV-cam to my computer. The result was a file that had good video quality and TV quality audio (of course), but the audio was, obviously, mono. On the left speaker, to be exact.

Is there a way I can use Windows Movie Maker (or some other free, small, simple utility) to just play the left track through the right speaker also?

I’d find a VCR with stereo outputs, but that would require a lot of effort – we have the one VCR, but 4 DVD players. Go figure. 🙂

I just want to play the one track through both speakers to simulate stereo sound. How can I do this?

Thanks, you digital video experts… 😃

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**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mono-audio-to-stereo-in-windows-movie-maker/224087/2 "2004-01-12T01:23:33Z")

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Try goldwave (google for it) I believe it has a 30 day trial period or some such grace period for use.

The program will load the audio file from most video formats. (If it doesn;t work you’ll have to extract it yourself).

After the mono file is loaded go to effects → stereo → channel mix 😉

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**Author:** ![Civil\_Defense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Civil\_Defense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Defense)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mono-audio-to-stereo-in-windows-movie-maker/224087/3 "2004-01-12T01:24:58Z")

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I can pull the audio from the video file, yeh, but then if I stereo-ize it, how do I put it back? 🙂