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Tracks: Lets you adjust how many tracks you want to add to the current clip or clips.
Each track you add will result in an additional linked audio item being edited into an
additional audio track when this clip is edited into the Timeline. For example, if you
have a multi-channel production recording with four different microphones, you can
add 3 mono audio tracks, and then assign each channel to a separate track to expose
each channel as an individual audio clip in the Timeline for purposes of editing each
microphone separately.
Add button: Lets you add the tracks you’ve specified to the current clip or clips.
A clip with a single track of two-channel stereo audio at left, compared
to a clip with two tracks of single channel mono audio at right
Audio Track and Channel List
The list below the Add Track controls show an entry for each track defined within the currently
selected clip or clips. Pop-ups within this list let you redefine and map how that clip’s channels
are spread across the differently mapped tracks you’ve created.
Format: The format of each audio track. Can be Mono, Stereo, 5.1, 7.1, or Adaptive.
Source Channel: Each track lists however many channels the specified format requires.
A Stereo track has two source channels, a 7.1 track has eight source channels. Channels
appear hierarchically underneath the track they belong to.
Track: The name of each track in a clip.
Channel in Track: The name of each channel in that track.
Delete Track button: Hovering the pointer over a track reveals a trashcan icon you can
click to delete that track.
A trashcan button you can use to delete an audio track within Clip
Attributes; it only appears when you hover the mouse over a track
Support for Mixed Audio Track Formats from Source Clips
DaVinci Resolve also supports media with multiple audio tracks that have differently formatted
channels embedded within them. For example, a clip with one stereo track, one 5.1 surround
track, and six mono tracks can all be appropriately set up in the Audio panel of Clip Attributes
after that clip has been imported.
The Audio panel of Clip Attributes now has controls over what format (Mono, Stereo, 5.1, 7.1,
Adaptive) the channels embedded within a particular clip should be configured as. This means
that you can set up clips with multiple tracks, each one using potentially different formats of
audio employing different combinations of clips, which is handy for mastering.
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