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Changing Clip Color in the Timeline
You can right-click one or more selected clips in the Timeline to change the clip color, to be
more organized. For example, you might set production audio clips containing dialog from
different actors to different colors, or you could set clips with dialog, music, and effects to
different colors in order to easily differentiate each clip’s purpose.
Editing Audio Clips in External Editors
While working in the Fairlight page, you have the ability to process an audio file using a third-
party application if necessary, in the event you need to use another application’s capabilities to
create an effect or solve an issue that can’t be accomplished in the Fairlight page itself. To do
this, you must first add one or more applications to the External Audio Process list in the Audio
Plug-ins panel of the System Preferences.
The External Audio Process list configured to send audio to Adobe Audition
To add an external audio process:
1 Open the System tab of the DaVinci Preferences, and select the Audio Plugins panel.
2 Click the Add button in the “Setup External Audio Processes” section.
3 To give the audio process a different name, double click in the Name column and type
a new name.
4 Double-click in the empty Path column for the new process, and choose an application
to assign to that process from the dialog.
5 Choose the type of process you want it to be from the drop-down menu in the
Type column.
Once you have one or more external audio applications configured in Preferences, you can use
them to process any audio clip in the Fairlight page by right-clicking an audio clip and choosing
the application you want to use from the External Audio Process submenu of the
contextual menu.
When you do this, a duplicate of the audio clip media is copied (bounced) to the directory
location specified by the “Save clips to” field of the Capture and Playback panel of the Project
Settings. At that point, the external application is either opened or launched as a command
from the command line (depending on how the external application has been configured in
Preferences).
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