Capturing Audio is 2 Mono channels, not Stereo!!!

I am capturing HDV. in the clip settings of the log and capture I check the option to capture as audio, but the clip is still imported as 2 mono files!
How do I remedy this?
Thanks
Adam

I do not believe you can. There is no option in capture settings to store the audio as stereo interleaved. There is apparently no display option in FCP to show a stereo file on a single track either.
But then, why does it really matter? The channels are linked in the timeline anyway, so for all intents and purposes, they can be edited as one. Often it can be very useful to have them seperated. Is there something you're trying to achieve that you presently cannot?
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