sending to sountrack pro from final cut

fcp 5.1.4 g5 2.7 4 gb ram (I have a good serial not stolen one)
I load up FCP, look at the sequence and find a clip with audio sitting on A1 and A2, I select this clip (with both a video track and the audio) and then right click to send to "soundtrack pro audio file" to do clean up and reduction and 1/2 the time the option is greyed out/unavailable, the other 1/2 of the time I can use the option and begin my "round trip" with no problem...

anyone have a clue as to why some clips A1 and A2 tracks WILL go out to audio file, while others, which seem to me to have nothing different than the other clips WILL NOT give me the option and leave it grey? I tried it with the files linked and also unlinked and there is no difference

If anyone has any clue and can help I'd greatly appreciate it.

thanks
andy

Hi, I had a similar situation and I Nested the clips I wanted and then I used the produced sequence to export the sound.
That may work for you.

Good luck

Okay... I've dealt with this since ST came out.

Here you go....
If you can't not get the option to send to to STP as an audio file

1st try to mono your audio in FCP. Uncheck the stereo pair from the
Modify menu. This separates left and right audio.

2nd You have to option click the Right or Left audio track, then
click send to STP.

I believe this all has to do also with how you captured your clip.
In my current project I captured in mono. Well with the problems
FCP has sending to STP I think I will always capture in stereo now.
You can always separate later...

Hope this helps.

John