Recorded two tracks in OBS but only 1 showing up in video editor

[wils_e]

I recorded some video game footage using 2 tracks. One is from the Mic, the other is the in-game audio. After recording I went to watch the raw file just using windows media player and it was only playing the in-game music, no audio from the Mic. Then I went into my video editing software (Corel Video Studio 2023) and when i brought the clip in there, now i'm only getting the audio from the mic, no in-game audio.

Obviously the two tracks recorded somehow but for whatever reason I can't see them and only get 1 at a time.

Has anyone else experienced this? or know where I'm going wrong here?

Edit: also the file format I used was MP4

 

[AaronD]

The tracks don't mix. They're meant for alternate languages, descriptions for the visually impaired, stuff like that. People also use them in intermediate files, so they can mix later in the editor.

If you want to hear multiple things at the same time (outside of an editor), they need to be on the same track. Ideally Track 1, as that's the one that most players pick by default.

 

[wils_e]

The tracks don't mix. They're meant for alternate languages, descriptions for the visually impaired, stuff like that. People also use them in intermediate files, so they can mix later in the editor.

If you want to hear multiple things at the same time (outside of an editor), they need to be on the same track. Ideally Track 1, as that's the one that most players pick by default.

Interesting, I was under the impression that If I recorded them separately I could adjust the audio levels independent of each other in editing software.

 

[AaronD]

Interesting, I was under the impression that If I recorded them separately I could adjust the audio levels independent of each other in editing software.

You can...if the editor can use multiple tracks. It's part of a core set of features that pretty much any decent editor should have, somewhere. If yours doesn't, look for something else.

Personally, I like this one:

Shotcut - Home

Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux

shotcut.org

Among many other things, it can:

• Take pretty much any type of source file (another core feature).
• Handle the picture and sound separately (for more complex projects) or together (for quick mashups).
• Select which audio track to grab from a file.
  • To use multiple tracks, you have that many copies of the same file, and pick a different track for each.

And of course, it does a whole lot more that usually takes a while to grow into.

 

[wils_e]

You can...if the editor can use multiple tracks. It's part of a core set of features that pretty much any decent editor should have, somewhere. If yours doesn't, look for something else.

Personally, I like this one:

Shotcut - Home

Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux

shotcut.org

Among many other things, it can:

• Take pretty much any type of source file (another core feature).
• Handle the picture and sound separately (for more complex projects) or together (for quick mashups).
• Select which audio track to grab from a file.
  • To use multiple tracks, you have that many copies of the same file, and pick a different track for each.

And of course, it does a whole lot more that usually takes a while to grow into.

Supposedly it does support multiple audio tracks. It is Corel Video Editor Ultimate 2023, however maybe it's because I recorded it in MP4 format? is .mkv required for this type of stuff? or is it more to do with the Audio Encoder I selected? I'm using FFmpeg AAC. I really don't know too much about the technical stuff unfortunately.

 

[AaronD]

Supposedly it does support multiple audio tracks. It is Corel Video Editor Ultimate 2023, however maybe it's because I recorded it in MP4 format? is .mkv required for this type of stuff? or is it more to do with the Audio Encoder I selected? I'm using FFmpeg AAC. I really don't know too much about the technical stuff unfortunately.

None of that matters. It's a little bit odd to do it in Shotcut, so it might be odd in Corel too. Keep looking.

That said, you should record in MKV for crash-resiliance:

• MP4 is designed for playback, so that the players can be cheap. (in every possible way) So it has a header that says what's coming. Naturally, that header can't be finished until the recording is done, so if it crashes mid-recording, you're left with an invalid header. That makes it difficult to recover any of it at all.
• MKV works more like an old-school tape machine. The data just runs until it stops. Not much more than that. So if *that* crashes, it's pretty much the same as if you meant to stop it there. Everything's fine, all the way up to the crash point.

As you can see from the screenshot, Shotcut can take MKV directly, as can pretty much everything else that's actually serious. YouTube does too, if you want to do something "live to tape" and then upload it as-is.

If you must have MP4, OBS can "remux" it from MKV. File -> Remux...
And you can have it do that automatically. Settings -> Advanced -> Recording
No loss of quality when you do that, and it's fast. It's just copying the data from one container to another with no changes whatsoever.