Setting Pan for Audio

NOTE:  This shortcut has been updated.

Every audio clip can be easily adjusted for pan with keyboard shortcuts. Sure beats opening the clip in the Viewer and fussing with that pan slider). When you adjust “pan,” you are determining, for a single channel of audio, how much of the sound comes out of each speaker. If you have a “stereo” recording consisting of two tracks, each one might panned all the way to the left or right speaker or they may have some overlap. Most often, I find myself needing to pan one, or usually a bunch of clips to the center (maybe I only want a center-panned mono track for SFX). The shortcut for panning a slected clip or clips to center is:

Of course there are shortcuts for “pan left” and “pan right” as well. Pan Left is CTRL , (comma)

and Pan Right is CTRL / (slash)

By the way, if you are already on the CTRL ,./ program, you should make sure you’re also using CTRL - and + or [ and ] to adjust audio levels on the timeline as that’s an even greater timesaver!