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5 Close the Link Group window when you’re finished.
Once you’ve created a linked group, the mono tracks in the timeline that you linked
appear with a bar to the left in the track header that spans every track that’s linked.
Ifthe tracks are tall enough, they’ll also be labeled to identify which track corresponds
to which surround channel, L, R, C, Lfe, Ls, Rs, and so on. At this point, you can edit
each channel of a surround mix into the appropriate track.
Tracks in a Linked Group are labeled to
identify which track corresponds to which
surround channel
If you’ve edited a multi-channel audio clip onto a multi-channel track, you can convert that track
and its contents into a Linked Group of mono tracks, each of which contains a single clip for that
track’s channel. This can be useful if you’ve been delivered a multi-channel surround audio clip
with an incorrect track mapping. You can convert it into a Linked Group, at which point you can
easily rearrange the channels.
To create a Linked Group from a single multi-channel timeline:
Right-click the track header of a multi-channel audio track, and choose Convert to
Linked Group from the contextual menu. This automatically creates one new audio
track for each channel, all of which are linked together. For example, converting a 5.1
audio track results in six new tracks with six individual audio clips (one for each
channel), all of which are linked together.
If necessary, you can also unlink a linked group to turn it back into independent mono tracks.
To unlink a Linked Group:
1 Choose Fairlight > Link Group.
2 When the Link Group dialog appears, select the Linked Group you want to unlink.
3 Click Unlink.
4 Close the Link Group window when you’re finished.
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