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Pan is always -1
Whenever I bring footage down to my timeline, the audio is always -1 Pan. Why is this. I have to click on every piece of audio and fix it and it’s a pain. Thanks in advance.
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10 Replies
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Type “Stereo/Mono control” in the search feature of the online manual. You know how to call up the online manual, don’t you?
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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When you look at a STEREO PAIR (in the viewer), a -1 in the pan field means the upper track is panned full left and the lower track is panned full right. If you look at an INDIVIDUAL track (in the viewer or audio mixer, for examples), -1 will mean panned full left and +1 will mean panned full right. Is this not what you’re hearing?
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Phil Van West
Terra Nova Productions
Denver, CO
Video Production/Post-ProductionMac Pro 2009 8-core 2.66GHz / 16GB RAM / OS 10.6.2 / FCP 7.0.1 / QT 7.6
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No, It plays on both speakers. Even if it’s a single track of audio, it is always -1 Pan. I can’t bring in any audio and where the Level and Pan are both 0.
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Did you read the entire section in the manual? It’s all explained there.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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Read? This is a new age. I post a question and someone tells me what to do…
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Thank you, David and Phillip. Like Ben, I also noticed the “Pan -1” setting but didn’t understand it. And, like him, I was concerned that I had a problem.
At your urging, I just opened up my FCP 6 hardcopy manual (Volume III, page 119) and read all about panning audio in FCP. Now, I fully understand. I guess this thick stack of manuals is actually worth something. 🙂
Thanks, guys, for being generous with your time and knowledge.
Jim
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I wish I could. I lent out my manuals and never got them back. That’s what I get for being nice. Please help me.
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https://documentation.apple.com/en/finalcutpro/usermanual/
John
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You might want to look at the audio controls right ther in the menus and take note of the panning keyboard shortcuts. Anyway -1 is stereo. 0 is dual mono. +1 is reverse stereo.
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