Audio Pan -1 (minus 1) by default

In my timeline all of my audio in the interviews is shown as Pan -1, when I look in my STEREO tab. Any suggestions? I find it a bit inconvenient to change it all the time manually... And it isn't the first time it has happened.
Thank you,
Tim

This is not a suggestion - Do not change the setting. This is correct for Stereo audio. This puts the left audio track to the left channel and the right to the right channel. By changing it, you are causing it to not be correct stereo.

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Not always. That IS the way it is for a mono clip: 0 = center, -1 = left and 1 = right.
But for a stereo clip, the default setting is -1, which means that the left channel will be output left and the right channel will be output right. A setting of 0 means that both channels will be panned center (making the pair mono) and a setting of 1 means that the channels are swapper; left channel is routed right and right channel is routed left.
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