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 Audio tracks: The Fairlight page of DaVinci Resolve supports multiple audio tracks,
and each audio track may contain multiple lanes with which to accommodate the audio
channels that are contained within multi-channel audio clips using track mappings such
as stereo, 5.1, 7.1, or Adaptive (1–24 channels). All audio clips that have been edited
into the Timeline appear within each track, with the recorded channels within each clip
occupying as many lanes as that clip has available. At the left of each track is a header
area that contains a number of controls.
The Fairlight timeline is divided into tracks and lanes; track A1 has a single lane for the
mono audio within it, and track A2 has two lanes to accommodate stereo audio
 Track header: The track header contains different controls for selecting,
locking/unlocking, and soloing/muting tracks. Each track header also lists how
many clips appear on that track. The track header contains the following five
controls, from left to right:
The track header controls of the
Fairlight page timeline
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Track color: Each track can be color-coded with one of 16 different colors. These
color codes correspond to the Edit page Mixer, and to the Fairlight page Mixer and
Audio Meters. You can choose a new color for any track by right-clicking the track
header and choosing from the Change Track Color submenu. You can set multiple
tracks to the same color by Command-clicking in the track header of multiple
tracks to select them, and then right-clicking one of the selected track headers and
choosing from the Change Track Color submenu.
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Track number: Indicates the number of each track.
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Track name: Each track has a name that defaults to the track number, such as Track
1, Track 2. However, you can click any track’s name and edit it to be whatever you
like. For example, you can rename each track with the type of audio you’re editing
onto it, such as Production, Ambience, SFX, or Music. These track names are also
used to identify each track’s channel in the Mixer, in the middle of each channel strip
(each channel strip’s track number is simultaneously displayed at the top).
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Audio channel type indicator: Audio tracks also show which channel configuration
that track uses, listing the number of channels for mono, stereo, 5.1, 7.1, and adaptive.
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Fader value: A field displays the current fader setting at the position of the playhead,
in dB.
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Lock Track button: Light gray when turned on, dark gray when turned off. When a
track is locked, clips can’t be replaced, moved, or otherwise edited, although clips
on locked tracks can be graded.
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