All my audio is panned left (-1) in FCP at DVinfo.net

Cole Seidl · May 18th, 2012, 11:04 PM

Hi guys,
Admittedly, I'm not an audio guy, but I'm having an odd issue I've never dealt with before. All my audio clips are panned -1 (left) in FCP. Which is odd enough, but I when listening through headphones it sounds fine. When I manually drag the slider to a 0 (center) position I can't tell a difference.

I suspected that it may have something to do with the way we recorded the audio. We used an AudioTechnica shotgun mic, ran through a mixer and onto my hard drive. But then I noticed any music I imported was also panned left.

The only audio clips which are centered by themselves are the clips straight from the T2i's onboard mic, which are originally connected to the video files.

Any idea what I'm dealing with here? Could it be a setting within FCP?

At the moment I'm going through and just manually panning the audio to 0, because even though I can't hear a difference I am suspicious.

Les Wilson · May 19th, 2012, 04:57 AM

In fcp right click the audio track in the timeline and select send to sound logic as audio file project

Do you have waveforms in both tracks? If not then maybe your playback system is in mono mode. Alternatively you may have imported them as mono I stead of stereo

Cole Seidl · May 19th, 2012, 11:04 AM

Thanks for reply. I don't have logic or a send to sound logic option, but I do have Soundtrack pro. Is that the same basic principle?

I do have waveforms in both tracks (both in FCP's audio editor and in soundtrack pro.) So I suspect it's not a mono/stereo issue.

Cole Seidl · May 19th, 2012, 11:09 AM

I've attached a screen cap of my situation just in case I'm not eloquent enough to describe it properly.

Pete Cofrancesco · May 19th, 2012, 01:08 PM

FCP Audio panning

Les Wilson · May 19th, 2012, 03:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cole Seidl

Thanks for reply. I don't have logic or a send to sound logic option, but I do have Soundtrack pro. Is that the same basic principle?...

Yes I meant soundtrack pro. But FCP is showing you have waveforms in both channels. The pan is getting set to -1 some where. Most likely during import.

Cole Seidl · May 19th, 2012, 06:42 PM

Thanks Pete,
I believe that link goes over exactly what what confusing me.

May 18th, 2012, 11:04 PM	#1
Cole Seidl Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 126	All my audio is panned left (-1) in FCP Hi guys, Admittedly, I'm not an audio guy, but I'm having an odd issue I've never dealt with before. All my audio clips are panned -1 (left) in FCP. Which is odd enough, but I when listening through headphones it sounds fine. When I manually drag the slider to a 0 (center) position I can't tell a difference. I suspected that it may have something to do with the way we recorded the audio. We used an AudioTechnica shotgun mic, ran through a mixer and onto my hard drive. But then I noticed any music I imported was also panned left. The only audio clips which are centered by themselves are the clips straight from the T2i's onboard mic, which are originally connected to the video files. Any idea what I'm dealing with here? Could it be a setting within FCP? At the moment I'm going through and just manually panning the audio to 0, because even though I can't hear a difference I am suspicious.

May 19th, 2012, 04:57 AM	#2
Les Wilson Inner Circle Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Boca Raton, FL Posts: 3,014	Re: All my audio is panned left (-1) in FCP In fcp right click the audio track in the timeline and select send to sound logic as audio file project Do you have waveforms in both tracks? If not then maybe your playback system is in mono mode. Alternatively you may have imported them as mono I stead of stereo

May 19th, 2012, 11:04 AM	#3
Cole Seidl Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 126	Re: All my audio is panned left (-1) in FCP Thanks for reply. I don't have logic or a send to sound logic option, but I do have Soundtrack pro. Is that the same basic principle? I do have waveforms in both tracks (both in FCP's audio editor and in soundtrack pro.) So I suspect it's not a mono/stereo issue.

May 19th, 2012, 11:09 AM	#4
Cole Seidl Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 126	Re: All my audio is panned left (-1) in FCP I've attached a screen cap of my situation just in case I'm not eloquent enough to describe it properly. Attached Thumbnails

May 19th, 2012, 01:08 PM	#5
Pete Cofrancesco Inner Circle Join Date: May 2004 Location: USA Posts: 3,005	Re: All my audio is panned left (-1) in FCP FCP Audio panning

May 19th, 2012, 06:42 PM	#7
Cole Seidl Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 126	Re: All my audio is panned left (-1) in FCP Thanks Pete, I believe that link goes over exactly what what confusing me.