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442Final Cut Pro User Guide
5. To change the role assignment for the selection, click the assigned subrole and choose
a different subrole.
Note: If you change a clip’s role assignment while audio lanes are shown in the timeline, the
clip moves vertically in the timeline to its new audio lane. See
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timeline with audio lanes.
Create custom roles in Final Cut Pro
You can create custom roles and subroles in addition to the five default roles (Video, Titles,
Dialogue, Music, and Effects). For example, you might create a separate Dialogue subrole
for each actor (or microphone) in your video project, so that you can quickly find and
adjust all the clips with that subrole.
You can also use custom roles and subroles to create different language versions of a
project, so you can export a version of the project with titles, captions, and narration in
each language. For example, you could organize voiceover narration clips into a separate
audio lane in the timeline by first creating a custom Voiceover role and then assigning
subroles (one for each language) to your voiceover narration clips.
Note: Custom roles and subroles are specific to a library. This means that a custom role
that you create for one library is not automatically available in another library. However, if
you copy or move clips between libraries, any custom roles and subroles assigned to those
clips are also available in the destination library.