Audio imports only in mono in FCP

[Kent Kitzman]

Hey everybody,

I was hoping someone could help me out. I shot a short film on Red. We recorded the audio in stereo. When I look at the QT proxies, they are in stereo. But when I imported my footage into FCP, it came in as mono on only one channel.

I figure a setting somewhere is wrong, but I can't figure out which one. Plus, when I import audio from other sources (some additional footage we shot on an HD camera and music) it comes in as stereo.

So my first question is obviously what am I doing wrong?

But my second question is, now that everything is imported, what should I do to fix it? Keep editing in mono and export it in stereo? Or double up my single audio track and pan it?

[Kent Kitzman]

one more possibility...

Is there a way to reimport the footage - in stereo - so it could go directly into my timeline and not effect the sequence I've cut so far? (I know that's probably a long shot).