[canopener]

I'm helping a friend do sound and scoring for his no to low budget promo video for his/my private school. It's a giving back kind of thing. And it's turning into a doc and he wants to put it on DVD and Blue Ray. Now, I'm a composer/orchestrator who has done a lot of work in high end film and done some low end scores on my own, most of which I mixed myself. I don't totally suck. But I'm not a sound editor/dubbing mixer. My friend is using Final Cut Pro and he's sending me VO and stereo background sound on separate tracks. What's the usual approach for panning backgrounds (if 'backgrounds' is the right terminology) or do you mess with that at all?

Thanks very much for helping out this very non post pro with any advise if you can.

Jim