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Chapter 4 Tutorial 4 - 53
Blackout cues and tracking
Sometimes you may add a channel to a sequence of cues that has not
used that channel yet. For example, you may want to add a channel to all
cues in a scene. To do this, add the channel to the first cue in the
sequence, and use Track to track the change through the remaining
cues.
To ensure that the newly-added channel does not track through another
cue, it is often helpful to construct a blackout cue. The blackout cue
prevents the new channel track from running into a different recorded
level.
Figure 6 displays what happens when we track channel 5 through the
sequence when cue 5 is a regular crossfade cue.
Cue 1 Cue 1.1 Cue 2 Cue 3 Cue 4 Cue 5
Channel 1 50 50 50 50 25 00
Channel 2 FF FF FF 00
Channel 3 FF FF 00
Channel 4 50 00 FF 00
Channel 5 FF FF FF FF FF FF
Figure 6
Channel 5 tracks through cue 5 and ruins the black out cue.