Apac an surround sound - easy one, hopefully...

I'm moments from making my first surround sound mix with Apac, and was wondering in a 5.1 mix which speakers the dialogue tracks should go to? ie just the front Right and Left, or these two plus the center, or all, or what?
Also, I'm reasoning the way to do it is to export to aif the dialogue and Left speaker mix, then export the dialogue with right speaker mix, etc. OR can I simply export just the dialogue, and in Apac place both the dialogue AND left speaker sound (for example) in the left speaker box? Which is the best way to go about this?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you!!

From your description, it sounds like you're not working with discrete stems (which a sound designer would give you so that they include the appropriate dialogue, effects, and music for each channel). Instead, it seems like you're exporting 2 channel audio from FCP. (am I right here?)
If that is the case, I'd recommend that you simply create a 2.0 mix in A.pack. (the viewer's playback setup [his/her receiver] can then use it's processing to fill the soundscape). In my experience, if you create a 5.1 mix from a 2 channel mix in FCP, all you end up doing is wasting space (and doubling up audio channels).
Of course, if you do have stems (and all my rambling was based on an incorrect presumption , please detail those a little bit more.

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