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The preview player in the Media Pool
Various viewing controls populate the title bar at the top. A drop-down menu at the
upper left lets you choose a zoom level for the audio waveform that’s displayed. To
the right of that, a Timecode window shows you the duration of the clip or the duration
that’s marked with In and Out points. Next to the right, a real-time performance
indicator shows you playback performance. In the center the title of the currently
selected clip is shown, with a drop-down menu to the right that shows you the most
recent 10 clips you’ve browsed. To the far left, a Timecode field shows you the current
position of the playhead (right-clicking this opens a contextual menu with options to
change the timecode that’s displayed, and to copy and paste timecode).
The center of the Media Pool Preview Player shows you the waveforms in all channels
of the currently selected clip, at whatever zoom level is currently selected.
Transport controls at the bottom consist of a jog bar for scrubbing, Stop, Play, and Loop
buttons, and In and Out buttons.
Dragging Audio Clips Into the Timeline
You can show the Media Pool in the Fairlight page, and edit audio clips into the Timeline in their
entirety by dragging and dropping individual clips onto whichever audio track you want them to
appear. You can drag any clip onto any track, regardless of whether or not the channels of the
clip match the channel mapping of the track. However, if you edit a clip with more channels than
a track has (for example, editing a stereo clip onto a mono track), only the channels supported
by that track will be output, with all other channels in that clip being muted. If this happens, you
can always remap the audio track by right-clicking the track header and choosing a new
mapping from the Change Track Type To submenu.
TIP: Dragging one or more clips to the empty area underneath the existing audio
tracks of the Timeline results in the creation of new tracks, each of which is
automatically mapped to however many channels are required by each audio clip
being edited.
If you want to edit several clips into the Timeline at once by dragging them from the Media Pool,
you’ll probably want to do a bit of preparation to make sure they’re edited in the right order.
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