Modify source clips as stereo pairs – FCP7

[David Roth weiss]

There is no reason to create a stereo pair from two identical mono tracks – you’re much better off simply deleting one track and center panning the remaining track so it plays out of both left and right speakers.

David Roth Weiss
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[Trevor Asquerthian]

Sorry, perhaps I wasn’t clear, source clip is actually 8 stereo pairs of audio. However metadata in QT identifies as 16 x mono.

In avid I modify clip within app to be 8 x stereos. I can’t remember if FCP7 had this as an option – maybe I have to do it within QT7?

Obvs cutting into timeline before linking as stereo is extra step.

[Nick Meyers]

Answer is no, you can’t do his in thre browser.

The trick is to do them en masse in a timeline, them copy / paste back into a new bin.

Nick

[Trevor Asquerthian]

Thanks Nick

As I thought. These are many and varied so no easy en masse possibilities. Maybe I’ll figure out an Automator or Butler shortcut…

Maybe it’ll make it into v7.1 🙂