User Manual

Working with Multiple Tracks
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To deselect solo monitoring:
t Click the Track Monitor button or the Solo button again.
Patching Tracks
When working with multiple tracks, you can encounter a circumstance in which you must edit
source audio or video onto a track other than the parallel track displayed in the Track Selector
panel. To edit the source material onto another record track above or below it, you must patch the
source track to the targeted record track.
You can perform only one patch per edit, but there is no limit on the number of times you can
patch from the same source track. Audio can patch only to audio, and video only to video. Also,
you can only patch multichannel audio tracks to multichannel audio tracks, or mono tracks to
mono tracks. Your Avid editing application dims the track selector buttons on tracks with
unsupported track formats when you patch tracks.
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You can also patch tracks by using the Auto-Patching option in the Edit tab of the Timeline
Settings dialog box. For more information, see “Timeline Settings” on page 1436.
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When you patch from one video track to another, the Video Track Monitor icon moves to
the track you are patching to if you selected the Auto-Monitoring option in the Edit tab of
the Timeline Settings dialog box. Return to monitoring the topmost track, when necessary,
to play back and output all video tracks.
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You cannot patch a data (D1) track to another track.
To patch a track:
t Drag from a source track (audio or video) to the targeted record track (a white arrow appears
during the patch). You can also drag from a record track to a targeted source track.
Track selection buttons for tracks with unsupported track formats dim as you drag the source
track to a record track and you cannot patch to those tracks. For example, if you patch a
source mono audio track, then all record stereo and record video tracks are disabled and you
can only patch to a record mono audio track.
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If you move the mouse pointer over a track selector button, and then press and hold the mouse
button, a list of available tracks displays.