Quicktime Stereo

Question

Hello to all reading this.
I posted this awhile back but am still having issues with it. My end goal is to use FCP 5.1 and a Canopus 100 ADVC box to capture DV video and Audio with the audio as 2 DISCRETE channels. The Reason for this is to be able to hand off the captured QuickTime files to others (Audio editors and Music editors) to be worked with. The problem I am having is that both the clip in FCP 5.1 and my captured QuickTime file itself, although have discrete audio channels, neither plays back discretely; Rather the playback as a stereo mix. Opening the clip into QT Pro 7.x and panning in QuickTime player only gives me 1 channel of the mix, not the discrete audio. In FCP 5.1, panning each of the audio tracks (MonoA1) and (MonoA2) will make the clip play back discretely. However, to get that same result in the Quicktime file, I am required to Recompress every frame in export box - taking me another 12 minutes for a 20 minute clip. And yes, In the capture window under the audio tab, I have the little aduio icon as 2 distinct circles indicating 2 discrete tracks. Hey even in the Capture window, under the audio tab, when not digitzing, the level indicators show 2 discrete channels. However after capturing, the audio is alas a stereo mix, not 2 discrete channels.
I would very much like to skip this "Make Sequence/re-export" step as it costing me an hour a day re-making these QuickTimes instead just capturing the QuickTimes with the discrete audio. Does anyone know how to do this or what I am missing to make this work for me.
Thanks
Doug

Answer 1

I doubt that there are many people using FCP to capture footage from an Avid. Why are you doing this? I use both systems and am not sure why you are doing this. Not that this has anything to do with the issue, I was just curious.
Have you set up FCP to capture them as mono and not stereo? I think you said as much but I want to be sure. In the Capture Window, Clip Settings tab there is that option to capture Stereo or capture as separate mono.
In the viewer, you say they show up as Mono, right? My mono captures are always center panned...but you need them right and left panned, correct? Yeah...I can see needing that. Hmmmmm...
Shane