using OBS Studio audio tracks

[torpor]

Hi, I was wondering how to utilize the audio from a recording I made.

First of all, I put Desktop Audio on Audio Track 1, and Mic Audio on Track 2. I've managed to upload the video recording of a game to Shotcut (any recommendations for other free editing software?) in an mp4 file but I have no idea how to import my mic audio. When I play the recording in ShotCut the video plays just fine at 60fps and the game's sound (desktop audio) can be heard as well. However, zero mic audio can be heard.

It's been pretty frustrating because I can't seem to find a way to 'manage' or 'select' audio tracks and move them from one program to the next. While recording the game I checked a couple times into OBS and sure enough, mic audio was being picked up alongside desktop audio.

So I'm pretty much just trying to figure out how to import, or 'use' audio outside of OBS but can't seem to figure out how to do it.

Thank you in advance.

-torpor

 

[koala]

Media players will play back one track only, never mix multiple audio tracks. You need to switch audio tracks within the media player to access other tracks. If you upload a video to some playback website, usually track 1 is kept and everything else dropped.

Recording multiple audio tracks is meant for postprocessing, so you can postprocess them separately. It's intended you use some audio postprocessing tool, load the multiple tracks, postprocess them individually, mix them, then replace the separate tracks with the one mixed track.