Setting an individual audio track to always center pan

[Ben Jones]

Thank you Dave – You are always so helpful on these forums.
However, you are suggesting changing the audio settings, and then the audio will come in as center panned, correct?
All the clips have already been imported and im not trying to redo the work already done. im also sharing this project with a bunch of people and dont want to step on any toes, so im trying to limit the instant center pan to just my sequence that im cutting into. So in short, i would like a sequence in which i cut an audio track into, and based on the track settings, it knows to center pan that audio clip. As mentioned, was hoping an RTAS might have this function

[John Pale]

Could you just make a template sequence and just duplicate each time you need a new sequence instead of creating a brand new one?

[Ben Jones]

Hey John
Thanks for the reply. I could totally do that if it solves the problem!
What would I be doing to this sequence to solve the automatic track pan problem?

[Ben Jones]

[John Pale]

Set the pans the way you want for every track in the audio mixer.

That sequence is now your template.

[Ben Jones]

I see John
So you are suggesting to center pan the sequence i am cutting FROM so that when it cuts into the new sequence it is panned correctly?
What i would like to do is set the pan in the sequence im cutting INTO so i dont screw around with the original material. I am rough cutting and still working through some things, so dont want to change any settings on the source. I only want to make a sequence which KNOWS ahead of time that whenever a panned left audio track hits the track, it knows to center pan it
Does that make sense ?

[Ben Jones]

Thanks David
I understand you are at a loss trying to understand why it would need to be done this way – I didn’t really go in to the details. But how about this – If you can set a track to always EQ, reverb or even sound like its coming out of a telephone when any clip is added to it without even needing to render, are you able to, using this same method, make the same clip pan a particular way?

[Ben Jones]

Thank you Dave
I was using the effects example in relation to the function of the RTAS. An RTAS can be applied to an entire track so that any audio clip which lands on it will playback the audio in real time, on the fly, without needing to render. You can add up to 5 RTAS’s to any given audio track, which mean you could EQ, Reverb, De-noise, De-ess and hey, add in an effect which makes the audio clip sound like its being played out of a tin can from across the room. These RTAS’s sit on the track, and any audio clip which lands on it, has this string of effects applied to it. In real time. So if you could add 5 different effects, with 5 different sets of parameters to as many audio tracks as your monitor could display, I would have to disagree and say that avid IS in fact smart enough to do what im suggesting. Which is, when an audio clip lands on it, decides to pan it left/right or even center.

[Ben Jones]

Thanks Dave
So cow people, still left with the original ask – If there is a way to set an audio track to always set a clip to pan a certain direction when a clip lands on it – im thinking RTASs as an example

[Job Ter burg]

No, you can’t.

The way I used to do it in the past: set default pan to alternating L/R, then use “Center Pan” on any and all production sound.

The way I do it now: set default pan to centered. Anything stereo or multichannel becomes a stereo or multichannel clip.