Importing stereo tracks, simple and silly

So I've stepped away from the sound portion of my work and am now getting back to the grind.
I have FCP suite 5.
When I export from FCP to STP as a multitrack project I unlink the stereo pair of my field recordings, and they appear as separate tracks in STP, panning to the left and right.
When I drag and drop new media from the same recording session it enters as a single track panned to the center, and not as a two track stereo pair.
I don't remember if I ever resolved this annoying aspect to the program.
Can you drag a stereo recording from the browser into a project and it not enter as a single track?
It is really a simple and silly question.
Thanks,
Nate

CRK Productions wrote:
As for mixing though in Audition, I have to make the exact same edit to both tracks? Im in CS 5.5. So if I keyframe one of the tracks from the "stereo pair" I have to go up and add another keyframe and mimic my edits to the other track? There is no way around this?
Yes, this is a bit of a snag... and one that for a completely different reason I ran into myself recently. The best solution I've come across so far (because it's free, and does exactly what it says it will) is Sound Devices' WaveAgent. Essentially, if you can easily decode into mono wav files, it will pack them into whatever format you want, all as one file. I use it to encode four mono files into one four-channel R64 file, which means that when you import it into Audition, it does exactly what you want - all edits occur on all four channels. It would do just the same for stereo.
Sound Devices - WaveAgent

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