[Bennett Davlin]

I am a film director and new to Creative Cow (although employees of mine on jobs have referred to it.) I’ve hand drawn 1600 pics and hired actors and edited a full animatic of my new movie for my financiers. My only issue was that I recorded certain audio scenes between the proxy male and female leads on a bidirectional mic (two mic heads) instead of the boom mic. I wanted to catch the performance with the actors working live off each other (since all the audience sees is the pictures I drew for now).

The subsequent audio clips are out of balance (left and right channel). So I have to shift the stereo pan about 48 to 50 points one way or another, one faced one of the mic heads with the other to the opposite one. To compound the issue, the performers slightly moved so the corrected pans can’t be easily pasted into their subsequent audio clips. And the balancing is never perfect. I’m usually a few points off on the right and left audio meters (although I usually get them within 6 and 12) on the audio meter.

I’m wondering if I can split the track and somehow create a stereo dup so the channels match. Unfortunatley I am not a FCPX pro (learning the system as I go). And the sound tracks on my real productions are handled by pros. I thought with your knowledge of FCPX you might be able to advise me if I am stuck balancing the channels or if there is a clever trick to split a track and create duplicate channels for these clips.