The sound on all(!) my captured clips isn't audible until i pan them. help!

Hi all, I'm fairly new to FCP.
I have captured hours of HDV documentary footage, and used the Easy Setup HDV presets to do it. This captures sound as 'channel grouped' rather than stereo pair.
The sound I recorded in the field was generally from a single stereo mic. I'm now going through the bins of clips, and giving them names... the trouble is that the audio on every clip isn't audible when I play them. The weird thing is that if I pan the 2 mono channels for each clip to full left and right, then the sound returns and is fine. I thought I'd have to do it on the timeline, by modifying every clip i used to be 'Stereo Pair', but I've worked out I can manually pan the clips in the bin using the audio mixer tool.
The trouble is, I have a LOT of clips, and was wondering if there was a clever way of sorting out this problem? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thomas
(ps. the sound for the clips comes out fine when I play them directly just using quicktime outside of FCP).

Hi all, I'm fairly new to FCP.< </div>
Welcome to the family, we all started someplace. But you have committed yourself to a big project without testing your workflow before jumping.
First piece of advice: Locate your tapes, you are probably going to recapture everything.
The sound I recorded in the field was generally from a single stereo mic. I < </div>
"Generally?" What about the exceptions? If you have shot with different audio settings, you cannot use the same preset for all of tapes.
What you have not determined is whether or not the sound exists in your captured media. Do the VU meters show audio data in all tracks? If so, you've got one kind of problem and some of the HDV guys can help you. If not, you have a different kind of problem and you'll want to gather your tapes for a marathon recapture session.
bogiesan

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