Recapturing Offline Logged Mono Clips as Stereo Clips

Help please!
I captured several of my tapes in mono by mistake and have already edited several sequences. I thought I could easily go back later and recapture them as stereo and they would update themselves in the sequence and relink all subclips from mono to stereo. Well, I tried to do it tonight and it appears the audio field is not changeable. I made the master clip offline recaptured it as stereo but it didn't work. I even tried relogging and capturing a whole new master clip that was identical to the mono version and then relinking this to the subclips but it didn't work.
Why can't use change the logged clip audio settings when the clip is offline!! This seemeingly simple operation will cost me days of extra work if there isn't a solution. Oh Final Cut Guru, show me the way!
Thanks
Adam

Hey Blissfire,
Thanks for bringing this up. I just got on this forum and this one of the key issues that I've wanted to solve. One time this issue set me back two weeks. A lot of sleepless night...
I'd give major props to Shane or Studio X, or another FCP wiz, if they can answer this. Any seasoned user can answer the easy questions, but what separates one top user from another is these meaty questions.
If not, maybe they'd know an easier workaround than Tony suggested.
Hopefully my prodding will get an answer that will make the sun shine again in tech world!
Sam

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