Audio in FCP, Pan.

[kitsu]

Hi.
Ok, I did a quick search for "pan" in this forum and I got all the "Pan"ther, "Pan"asonic, etc responses in my results, so I'll just ask.

All of my audio (stereo pairs I guess) have the pan set at -1, seemingly by default. Is there a reason for this that I'm missing? Shouldnt the default be 0? Anyone care to give me a concise explination why I'd want -1 vs 0 to start?

For this project, stereo is not important, in fact, in most cases I'll be deleting the onboard audio track and just use what my Senn Me-66 gave me, but I'd still like to know for future projects.

~Andrew

 

[Scottdvx100]

Re: Audio in FCP, Pan.

From Help file:
If the audio clips in the Viewer are a stereo pair, this slider lets you swap the left and right channels. The default setting of –1 sends the left audio channel of your clip to the left channel output and the right audio channel to the right channel output. A setting of 0 outputs the left and right audio channels equally to both speakers, essentially creating a mono mix. A setting of +1 swaps the channels, outputting the left audio channel to the right speaker and the right audio channel to the left speaker.

 

[kitsu]

Re: Audio in FCP, Pan.

Bingo. Thanks

I sorta figured this out last night when I muted the onboard audio, and then set the pan to 0 (and then got sound from both speakers), but its still good to know.

~Andrew