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Editing a multi-channel production recording as five separate tracks of audio
This way, when you edit that clip into the Timeline, each audio channel appears as its own clip
in its own audio track of the Timeline, which can be separately edited so you can edit the scene
to isolate the best dialog from each microphone.
Editing multi-track audio to isolate the best dialog from each microphone
Changing Audio Clip Attributes After Editing
It’s best to make decisions about which audio tracks and channels are assigned prior to
beginning editing. This is because once you’ve edited a clip into a timeline, you can’t use the
Clip Attributes window to edit how many audio tracks and audio channels are exposed in
theTimeline.
However, you can use Clip Attributes to change which channels are assigned and/or muted
within the available tracks and channels you’ve edited into the Timeline. For example, if you’re
editing clips that have five channels of source audio (channels 1 and 2 are a stereo mix and
channels 3 through 5 are three different microphones), you may have set your synced source
clips to have one audio track and five audio channels, with channels 3–5 muted. Later you have
a few clips that would sound much better if you only used channel 4, which is the isolated
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