Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 291)

290 Part IV Logging, Capturing, and Importing
5 Select which channels from your audio interface you want to capture.
Important: When you select channels in the Clip Settings tab, you are selecting input
channels on the audio interface, not on the video or audio deck itself. For easy and
consistent audio capturing, you should connect the audio outputs on your deck to the
input channels with the same numbers. For example, if you are capturing from a Digital
Betacam deck, you should connect output channels 1–4 of the deck to input channels
1–4 of your audio interface.
6 Click the Stereo/Mono control next to any pair of audio channels that you want to
capture as a stereo pair, so it’s darkened.
Dual Mono Versus Stereo Audio
If you’re using a DV camcorder, you typically record two channels of audio during
production. By default, DV camcorders use a built-in stereo microphone, with the left
side recorded on audio channel 1 and the right side recorded on audio channel 2 of
the tape. This is a stereo grouping, where channel 1 represents the sounds on the left
side and channel 2 represents sounds on the right side.
Throughout the editing process, you edit both the left and right sides of a stereo
sound at the same time. In this case, channels 1 and 2 are grouped together as a
single stereo pair.
However, if you use separate microphones to record independent sounds, such as
dialogue from two actors, you can capture each audio track so that it is independent
(discrete) from the other. These are called dual mono tracks.
Stereo/Mono control is
enabled.
Stereo/Mono control is
disabled. Audio inputs
can be selected
independently.