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Methods of permanently changing audio/video linking in the Timeline:
To unlink audio and video from one another: Select a clip, then right-click it and
choose Link from the contextual menu (or press Option-Command-L). Unlinked clips do
not appear with a chain icon before the clip name in the Timeline.
To link audio and video clips to one another: Command-click an audio clip and a video
clip so they’re both selected, then right-click the selected clips and choose Link from
the contextual menu (or press Option-Command-L). A chain icon appears before the
name of linked clips in the Timeline.
(Left) linked video and audio with a chain icon to
the left of the clip name, (Right) unlinked audio
and video items have no icon.
Linking Multiple Clips in the Timeline
You don’t just have to link audio and video clips that sync together, though. You can actually link
any number of video and audio clips that you want to be able to select, move, and edit together
as one, even if they were never originally meant to be synced. This makes linking an
organizational mechanism as much as a sync management tool. Here are some examples of
how you can use this:
You can link a text generator with a subtitle to the clip it plays along with.
You can link a sandwich of overlapping audio sound effects with the video clip
theyaccompany.
You can link off camera audio to an on camera shot.
You can link the background and foreground clips of a green screen composite,
withsound from both.
Linking multiple clips in the Timeline works the same as linking a single audio and video clip
together; every single linked item appears with a chain icon to the left of the clip name, and
suspending linked selection to force any single clip out of sync will result in the display of an
“out-of-sync” indicator.
Multiple audio and video items that have been manually linked
together to act as a single clip in the Timeline when Linked
Selection is enabled
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