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Four audio tracks with a variety of audio tracks shown. From the top down, Mono, Stereo, Adaptive, 5.1
Changing How Many Channels an Audio Track Has
If you had set up your timeline with one kind of audio track, but you discover you actually need
a different kind, you can change any audio track’s type at any time. Just right-click anywhere in
that audio track’s timeline header, and choose an option from the Change Track Type To
submenu of the contextual menu.
Contextual menu for changing audio track types
Editing Audio Clips Into the Timeline
When you edit a video clip with accompanying audio, or an audio-only clip, into the Edit page
Timeline, what you see depends on how the audio’s internal tracks and channels were defined
in the Media Pool, using Clip Attributes. If you’ve defined a clip to expose multiple tracks of
audio, each exposing a different channel, then you exchange the convenience of managing
multiple channels of audio as a single item for the freedom to individually edit each channel of
audio separately, as individual clips in the Timeline.
For example, if you’ve been given a multi-channel recording that consists of two boom
microphones, two separate lavaliere microphones, and a mixdown track that were recorded
simultaneously, you can use the Audio panel of the Clip Attributes window to set that clip’s
audio up as 5-channel Adaptive audio with 5 tracks containing one channel each. Editing this
into the Timeline, you end up with five separate audio items appearing in five tracks.
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