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For more information on using an offline video to compare with an imported Timeline in the Edit
page, see Chapter 46, “Preparing Timelines for Import and Comparison.” For more information
on split-screen reference of Offline video in the Color page, see Chapter 113, “Using the
Color Page.”
Extracting Audio in Media Storage
If there’s a video clip in the Media Storage panel that has audio you need, but you don’t want
the video component, you can use the Extract Audio command to create a self-contained audio
clip that you can then import into the Media Pool by itself.
To extract the audio from a media file:
1 Right-click a clip in the Media Storage panel, and choose Extract Audio.
2 Click the Browse button in the Extract Audio dialog to find another disk location for the
extracted clip.
3 Click Extract. The audio channels are extracted and written as a .WAV file to the
selected destination.
4 After you’ve extracted the stand-alone .WAV file, you’ll need to import it into the Media
Pool if you want to use it in your project.
Manually Organizing the Media Pool
Whether you’re doing onset work, creating digital dailies, organizing media to edit, or ingesting
media to conform to an imported project, it’s vitally important to stay organized. The Media Pool
provides many different tools for doing so. This section examines how you can create bins to
manually organize collections of clips.
To Select Clips in the Media Pool
There are a variety of ways you can make clip selections in the Media Pool in preparation for
relinking, unlinking, moving, duplicating, deleting, or doing any other operation to them.
 Click any clip to select it.
 Drag a bounding box around several clips to select them all.
 Hold the Command or Shift keys down and drag a bounding box around another
discontiguous group of clips to either add them to the current selection or remove them
from the current selection.
 Click one clip, then Shift-click another to select both clips and make a continuous
selection of all clips in-between. Shift-clicking another clip can expand or contract
theselection.
 Command-click individual clips to select a discontiguous number of clips.
Command-click a clip that’s already selected to individually de-select it, while leaving
the rest of the selection alone.
 With one clip selected, hold the Shift or Command keys down and use the Arrow keys
to expand the selection to other clips.
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