Panning for Assets, Shotlists, and Sequences

The default panning for clips, subclips, shotlists, and Sequences (left, right or center) is set in the Interplay Administrator (the Application Defaults tab in the Application Database Settings view). These settings include tracks 1 through 16. MediaCentral Cloud UX assigns odd tracks=left and even tracks=right for tracks 17 through 24 by default. Currently, you cannot override the default panning for source assets and shotlists, but you can alter the panning for Sequences.

For information on news sequences, see Panning for News Sequences.

The following illustration shows the default panning of odd (A1, A3) = 100 percent left (L) and even (A2, A4) = 100 percent right (R).

If Mix Mode is set for Mono, panning is ignored and all tracks are mixed into a single track, which is played back in both output monitors (left and right). This setting applies only to assets played in MediaCentral Cloud UX and is not saved with the sequence. Default panning is used for mixdown and send to playback (STP).

Sequences include the ability to alter the panning options. Panning changes are per track (not per segment) and are saved with the Sequence. The following illustration shows a Sequence with four audio tracks and panning changes on the first three tracks.

Note the following about track panning:

  • Panning changes made to empty Sequence tracks are not saved with the sequence.

  • If you enable the Audio Mixing Defaults option in the Application Database Settings section of the Interplay Administrator, MediaCentral Cloud UX respects and applies those defaults. This applies to the default tracks of any new Sequence, as well as any tracks added to a Sequence.

  • If the Audio Mixing Defaults option is disabled, all tracks default to odd / left, and even / right.

To adjust the panning on Sequence tracks:

  1. Load a Sequence into the Asset Editor and click on the Audio tab.

  2. Click and hold the knob for any track and drag the mouse to the left or right to adjust the panning.

  3. Save your Sequence to save the changes.

You can reset a panning adjustment back to its default value by Ctrl+clicking on the knob.