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CHAPTER 4: THE TIMELINE ■

SOLOING

There may be times when you need to see or hear a track independently and alone. Okay,

I’m talking like a lawyer now. What I mean is, in a multitrack sequence, it becomes

kind of like a jungle out there, and it can be difficult to distinguish certain elements. In

cases such as these, you need to be able to see or hear those tracks by themselves with-

out the outside interference of other existing tracks.

That’s what soloing does.

To solo a track, video or audio, hold down F/Ctrl and click the track’s monitoring

panel. Note that the minipanel turns hideously jungle green. Electric Jungle. Remember,

it’s a jungle out there. Well, I don’t know the exact name of the color, but you’ll defi-

nitely see it when it happens! If you solo video tracks, the soloed track will play, but

you will not see any other tracks. If you solo an audio track, the soloed track can be

monitored, but you won’t hear any other tracks.

SCRUBBING AUDIO

When you want to intensely scrutinize audio tracks, you can turn the Caps Lock key

on for scrubbing. But with four audio tracks in Free DV (24 tracks in Xpress Pro)

and a two-track scrubbing capability, how do you choose which tracks are scrubbed?

You’ll see it in the minipanel next to the track panel selector. If the minipanel has a

gold speaker icon, it is one of the two chosen tracks that is scrub-capable. If the speaker

icon is black, it is not chosen for scrub.

How do you change it? First, the hard but common way. Let’s say that we want

to change scrubbing capability from audio 1 and audio 2 to audio 2 and audio 3 (see

Figure 4.7). The first thing to do is to completely turn off audio 1 monitoring, which

switches scrubbing to the next available track, which is audio 3. Now, when you turn

audio 1 back on, its speaker icon is black (thus, not scrubbable). You’ll get the hang

of it.

But if you don’t get it, you can always Alt/Option+click a minipanel to make the

track scrubbable. That’s the easy way.

Now why did I go through the trouble of showing you the first method? I did it

because I see the first method all the time, but I rarely come across the second one.

This is an example of how you can choose between something simple, like remember-

ing to Alt/Option+click, or spin your wheels clicking on monitor icons.

Figure 4.7 (a) By default, audio tracks 1 and 2 are the scrubbed

tracks.(b) When we click the speaker icon on track 1, track 3 is

automatically selected for scrubbing.(c) When we click the blank

space next to track 1,tracks 2 and 3 remain scrubbed.

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