When a project is sent from FCP, do all mono tracks become stereo?

It appears that when exporting a sequence from FCP, all mono tracks become stereo. Is this correct?
I have a mono voiceover on A1, and a mono set of SFX on A2, and then some other stereo background music tracks. When sent to STP, the two mono tracks show as being stereo files, when you look at the file information, and indeed, they have two waveforms displayed in the timeline.
Is this just the way it works?

Interesting link, thanks for that.
However, I have to say that was not my experience of how it ended up. I had two mono tracks, without panning, and when I sent it to STP, it ended up as 2 stereo tracks.
I would have to experiment a bunch to try and figure out why that happened, and at this point, I think I've decided to NOT use STP and just stay in FCP, for a number of reasons. Mainly the fact that once you've done a whole bunch of effect assignment and mixing, enveloping etc. to a multitrack project in STP, there's no easy way to move a few clips around (in FCP) or tighten up some video edits without having to manually calculate frame offsets in STP, and laboriously move things around and hope they still match up. Could be I'm missing something, I only used STP for a full day...
Maybe the update will make it better somehow.

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Also, my timeline: DVCPROHD 720P at 29.97fps, 48kHz, 16-bit depth.
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AimeeLove,
I have a solution for you. You may have to modify the code a little bit based on how long the timeline animation is for your clock. I based mine on 3 seconds to complete a minute hand sweep around the clock.
Milliseconds for each point on the clock:
12 = 0
1 = 250
2 = 500
3 = 750
4 = 1000
5 = 1250
6 = 1500
7 = 1750
8 = 2000
9 = 2250
10 = 2500
11 = 2750
In the mouseover section for 12 o' clock, put this code...
myVar = setInterval(function(){
     var pos = sym.getPosition();
     if (pos > 0 && pos < 50){
          sym.stop(0);
          clearInterval(myVar);
},10);
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In the mouseout section, put this...
sym.play();
clearInterval(myVar);
It start the clock again, and it also clears the loop in case you mouseout before you reach the range.
Make sure that myVar is a global variable so you can clear it from the mouseout section.
Repeat this for each point on the clock. To avoid potential conflicts, you may want to use my12, my1, my2, etc. instead of myVar. I put the milliseconds at the top that you would use as the beginning of the range. 50 milliseconds should be enough to catch it. So, for 5 o' clock, you would make your range between 1250 and 1300.
Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!
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Do you have any filters applied to your clips?
This happened to me before, I accidently had applied a broadcast safe filter to a color matte that was black....
I figured it out by duplicating my sequence and deleting items from my timeline 1 by 1 until I was able to export a reference movie.
Anywho, export again, this time with "self contained" movie selected.
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as in "trash preferences"? Not the same as Final Cut Pro.
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Please tell me there is a way around this.
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What PPro is looking for is the assets in the same directory structure as when the XML file was created from FCP. So let's say that as you were about to save the XML file from FCP, you had all the assets on 1 single drive. Some were in Folder A, some where in Folder B, some in Folder A-1 (a subfolder of A) and some in Folder B-1 (subfolder of B). As long as the files remained in roughly that same folder structure in relation to one another, PPro should be able to find all the other assets AFTER you've found the first one.
With all the translation if you go from a Mac to a PC system, there's a lot of chance there that the directory structure - even if you kept it basically all intact - could still be messed up. Once the XML is loaded into PPro, however, you should be able to select multiple offline clips in the project folder, choose "Link Media" and have PPro go through and (hopefully) find everything automagically. If not, the Finder button in the "Link Media" dialog box should help.
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