Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 874)

Chapter 5 Using the Audio Mixer 89
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Making Stereo Pan Adjustments with the Audio Mixer
You can control the stereo pan of clip items within audio tracks by using the panning
sliders in the Audio Mixer. Like adjustments made using audio faders, adjustments
made using a track’s panning slider affect only the clip that appears at the position
of the playhead, and these adjustments can be automated. For more information on
creating pan automation, see “
About Mixer Automation and Keyframe Recording ” on
page 91.
For more information about working with stereo audio in Final Cut Pro, see “ Stereo
Audio ” on page 26.
Pan Controls for Stereo and Dual Mono Audio
The way clip items are linked together and the kind of output bus assigned to a track
affects how pan controls behave in the Audio Mixer.
Initially, you choose whether clip items are mono or stereo during capture, but you can
change this when you edit in the Timeline.
About Mono and Stereo Clip Items
Clip items may be linked in the following ways:
 Mono clip item: A mono clip item is a single audio clip item that contains one audio
channel and is not linked to any other clip items.
 Stereo pair clip items: Two clip items can be specially grouped together as a stereo
pair. Creating a stereo pair allows you to adjust the levels and pan controls of both
clip items simultaneously. Clips captured as stereo are automatically added to the
Timeline as a stereo pair. For more information, see Volume II, Chapter 17, “Audio
Editing Basics.”
 Linked clip items: To keep items in sync while you edit, you can link up to 24 audio
clip items (mono or stereo pair) together. Linking audio items does not change their
mono or stereo pair characteristics. Dual mono clip items are a typical output group
in which two mono clip items are linked together. For more information, see
Volume II, Chapter 14, “Linking and Editing Video and Audio in Sync.”