I found this thread about XDCAM Transfer but the problem I am having is with the FCP plugin:
http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/sony-xdcam-ex-cinealta/124320-xdcam-transfer-stereo-clips-fcp.html

The bug I am seeing is that the Log and Transfer Plugin for FCP always assumes mono mix for importing clips. It was unpleasant to discover this after importing a couple hundred clips. My FCP Sequence preset shows audio is set to Stereo but unless I click the audio tab of the L&T plugin and change it to stereo for every clip, the ingest imports the audio as mono.

Has anyone figured out a workaround to this bug? I am using XDCAM_EX_Log_and_Transfer_Plugin_1_2_0

TIA

forgot to attach sequence settings. I noted the Capture Preset is defaulted to Generic Capture Preset which acts as a dummy I suppose. Nothing in there matches what is being ingested.

. . . but unless I click the audio tab of the L&T plugin and change it to stereo for every clip, the ingest imports the audio as mono.
TIA

You should be able to select all the clips and change them in one step. If you can't do it in the bin, then put them in a sequence, make the change, and then move them back to the bin.

That worked a charm Doug. Thank you