Apple Final Cut Pro 5 User Manual
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Part I
Media and Project Management
Editing
While you edit in the Timeline, you can link two audio clip items together into a stereo
pair so that you can control both clips’ levels or pan settings at the same time. You can
also unlink stereo clip items so they are two independent, mono clip items. For more
details about linking and unlinking stereo audio items, see Volume II, Chapter 17, “Audio
Editing Basics.”
Mixing
When you mix your sequence audio, you can assign each track to either a single
(mono) output channel or a pair of output channels (stereo). If a track is assigned to a
mono output channel, the track’s panning slider in the Audio Mixer is disabled,
regardless of whether the clip item in the track is mono or part of a linked stereo pair.
Pan settings have no effect when you output audio to a mono output. However, if you
assign two tracks to a pair of stereo output channels, and you have two clip items
linked as a stereo pair placed on these two tracks, you can control the stereo pan on
both clips with the panning sliders in the Audio Mixer.
For more information about assigning tracks to dual mono or stereo output channels,
see “