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Track Header area showing the controls for
each track that are located within
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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.
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Destination control and Track Number: These controls are highlighted orange
when that track is selected for editing, dark gray when that track is not selected,
and flat gray if that track is disabled for editing. The Destination buttons dictate
into which tracks audio and video media in the Source Viewer will be placed when
an edit is executed. Ordinarily, there is one video destination control (V1) and one
audio destination control (A1). If you add additional tracks, you can see that each
destination control is numbered according to its track position. The bottom track is
“V1,” and subsequently numbered tracks appear higher in the Timeline. Click any
track’s number to select that track for different editing functions; the selected track is
highlighted black.
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Track Name: Each track has a name that defaults to the type of track and the track
number, such as Video 1, Audio 1. However, you can click any track’s name and edit
it to be whatever you like. For example, you can rename each audio 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 Edit page
Mixer and in the Fairlight page Mixer.
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Enable Track/Mute button: A slash indicates when a track is disabled. This control
lets you turn tracks on and off. Clips on tracks that are turned off aren’t visible in the
viewer, don’t show up in the Color page, and aren’t available for rendering or output.
For Audio tracks this is the Mute button.
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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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Auto Select button: On by default. Light gray when that track is selected, dark
gray when that track is not selected. When this control is on, clips on that track are
automatically included in operations that affect all clips that intersect the position of
the playhead, or that intersect a region defined by the Timeline In and Out points.
When this control is off, clips on that track are ignored by those same operations.
Furthermore, rippling is suspended on tracks with Auto Select turned off for
operations that would otherwise ripple the Timeline. Note, manual selections made
in the Timeline that highlight specific clips take precedence over the Auto Select
controls, so if Auto Select is turned off on track 1, but you’ve selected a clip on
track 1, the selected clip will be still be affected by whatever operation you’re about
to perform.
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