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Chapter 10 Advancedediting 295
An audition is created containing the selected clip and a duplicate version with eects and
attributes copied from the rst clip.
Open an audition
After you create an audition, it’s easy to open it and review its contents.
Do one of the following:
m Choose Clip > Audition > Open (or press Y).
m Click the Audition icon.
Audition icon
The Audition window appears, and you can preview your clips to choose a pick.
Break apart an audition
You can break apart an audition to convert its contents to individual clips in the Timeline.
m Select an audition in the Timeline, and choose Clip > Break Apart Clip Items (or press
Shift-Command-G).
Final Cut Pro replaces the audition selected in the Timeline with the individual items that made
up the audition.
You can also break apart compound clips, storylines, and standard clips. For more information,
see Create and break apart compound clips on page 271 and Add storylines on page 277.
Add and remove clips in auditions
When building auditions to try out dierent clips or versions of a clip with dierent eects, you
can add and remove clips at any time. In the Browser and the Timeline, you can add new clips
to the audition as well as duplicate clips within an audition. When an audition in the Timeline
contains the clips you want to try out, you can use the audition to preview the clips or eects in
your project.
Add clips to an audition in the Browser
m To add new clips to an audition in the Browser: Select the audition and the clips you want to add to
it, and choose Clip > Audition > Create (or press Command-Y).
Select the audition.
Select clips to add
to the audition.
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