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Dragging Clips From the File System Into the Timeline
You can also drag a clip directly from your file system to the Timeline on supported platforms.
Dragging multiple clips into the Timeline from the macOS Finder
Audio Track Creation While Editing
When dragging an audio clip to the undefined gray area of the Timeline below currently
existing audio tracks in order to create a new track, the new track is set to a channel mapping
that reflects the number of channels of the audio clip you’re dragging.
This also means that if you’ve used Clip Attributes to map a clip’s audio to consist of multiple
tracks where each track has a different channel mapping, for example, one 5.1 track, one stereo
track, and six mono tracks, then editing that clip into the Timeline so that the audio portion
creates new tracks will automatically create eight tracks: one that’s 5.1, one that’s stereo, and six
that are mono.
Using Keyboard Shortcuts and Three-
Point Editing to Assemble a Program
While drag and drop editing is intuitive enough, there are other methods of editing clips into the
Timeline by using the playhead to define where those clips will start that can be more efficient
and precise. These examples all use “overwrite” edits, which delete unwanted media from the
Timeline as you’re adding clips that you do want. Here are two examples of how to do this.
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