AVID – Audio Import Sound Mix

NOTE: IF YOU HAVE TWO TRACKS L TRACK AND A RIGHT TRACK THEN USE THE NORMAL AUDIO IMPORTING WORKFLOW AND PAN THE TRACKS LEFT AND RIGHT IN AVID. THE AUDIO WILL COME INTO AVID PROJECT MONO AND MUST BE PANNED. See this wiki doc
USE THE FOLLOWING WORKFLOW FOR A SINGLE FILE that was exported stereo interleaved.

Mac
Windows > File > Settings
Step One – Make sure you AVID Project is set to 24 bit audio. Go to the Project Window and click on the Settings tab Click ON Audio Project
Choose the "Main" tab and make sure the Sample Rate is 48 and the Audio File Format is set to PCM (MXF) 24bit Close this settings dialog by clicking on the "red" x to close
Import the Stereo or 5.1 audio into the project Go to >File>Import> or Input (8.5) Import Media
Click on Options
Click on the Audio Tab Make sure the audio looks like this Turn off Autodectect Broadcast Wave Mono Groups Turn Off Subframe Alignment to Broadcast Wave Start Time Next click on the "Edit" button.
You have to tell the AVID software to make channels A1 and A2 into a stereo file. Choose the stereo option in the pulldown.
This is how a stereo import setting looks. Click OK again to leave the Audio Import Tool
Navigate to your audio and click Import
Select 23.98 as the timecode most likely and OK to all clips