• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  audio panning left right

  Posted by David Lewis on July 19, 2011 at 7:13 am

  I need to split my audio tracks. I need VO/SYNC/FX on CH1 and Music on CH2.

  Since the music is stereo, I am having trouble trying to make it “mono”, and get it to CH2. When I use the Pan option, is simply splits the two channels L/R. I cannot eliminate the bleed of music onto CH1.

  Now, if I try and delete one music channel (I only need this for reference… doesn’t need to be stereo), I can’t… I end up erasing the 2nd channel as well.

  Must be a simple fix I’m missing… what is it??

  Thanks

  David C. Lewis
  Editor- Director
  DCL Video Productions

  David Lewis replied 14 years, 9 months ago 1 Member · 2 Replies
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  David Lewis

  July 19, 2011 at 7:01 pm

  Hi Dave:

  Thanks for your answer… I figured it was something simple like that (in AVID, which is where I am more comfortable, I’ve been able to do that without any problem).

  My only question is, where/what do click to dis-engage the stereo option? I’ve been playing around abit with the Audio Mixer and I don’t find that option.

  Sorry for the “spoon feed”, but I haven’t found an answer by my own devices of “trial and error”.

  In the end, which actually made my editing easier in this particular instance for what I needed to do, I made a VO/SYNC/FX track (eliminated all the music) and exported it as a mixed QT movie. I did the same for the stand-alone scratch music. I then placed imported these new audio files, placed them into the timeline matiching the video. THEN I was able to very easily pan the tracks L/R for CH1/2, as there were no longer any stereo associatd tracks.

  Thank you for your help.

  David C. Lewis
  Editor- Director
  DCL Video Productions
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  David Lewis

  July 20, 2011 at 5:41 am

  Hi David:

  I found it and (of course) it works perfectly. Thanks for guiding me through that. For some reason I didn’t see that line in the drop-down menu (guess I “didn’t look hard enough”… as I’m oft to remind my daughter to do!).

  As I work more and more with FCP I’m finding it very easy and friendly to use… the trick is just to get over the learning-curve and get to know the system… of course just when I’m getting to be somewhat “proficient” (still got a ways to go)… they drop FCP7 and promote FCPX, which apparently is missing a few key features I may need.

  All the best and thanks again!

  David C. Lewis
  Editor- Director
  DCL Video Productions

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