User Manual

Using Clip Volume and Pan Mode
811
You can also do any of the following:
• Monitor as few audio tracks as possible.
• Deselect the video track, if practical.
• Use In and Out points to select a narrow interval to adjust.
Modifying How Your Avid Editing Application Interprets Pan
The way you record footage in the field and capture it with your Avid editing application affects
the way sound pans between the speakers. By default, the system pans mono audio tracks 1 and 3
to the left speaker output and pans mono tracks 2 and 4 to the right speaker output.
When you adjust pan values on multichannel stereo tracks, you pan the stereo mix of the
left/right audio pair for the clip. For example, when you pan to the right output channel, you
move the full stereo mix further to the right channel.
You can set global pan settings before or during editing by using the Audio Settings dialog box
or the Audio Project Settings dialog box. You can also set pan for individual mono clips by using
the Center Pan command.
To modify the way the system interprets pan during playback:
t Set the default pan values in the Audio Settings dialog box, which you access from the
Settings list in the Project window.
By default, the mono audio tracks for clips alternate with track 1 on the left speaker and
track 2 on the right speaker for monitoring and output. The All Tracks Centered option
instructs the system to center the pan of all tracks between the two speakers for monitoring
and output. The system pans stereo tracks to the center by default, with the left speaker
panned full left and the right speaker panned full right.
t Click the Mix Mode Selection Menu button in the Output tab in the Audio Project Settings
window, and select one of the following modes (the options in the Mix Mode Selection
menu depend on your audio hardware):
Mode Description
Stereo Uses the default pan settings and lets you create pan effects.
Mono Pans all mono tracks to center during output. This mode ignores pan effects.
Direct This mode uses the default pan settings and ignores pan/vol effects.