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459Final Cut Pro User Guide
5. To choose whether role components are based on roles or subroles, click the “Show
Components as” pop-up menu and choose an option.
When the “View components as” pop-up menu is set to Subroles, as in the example
below, each role component is based on a subrole found in the compound clip, not on a
parent role.
Note: Changing this view with the pop-up menu also changes how the components
are displayed in the timeline when you show expanded audio components for the
compound clip.
In many ways, you can work with role components as you would with standard audio
components. For example, you can:
• Skim over an individual role, or play it back using the Space bar or the J, K, and L
keys. See View and listen to an audio component.
• Remove a role from a compound clip by deselecting its checkbox in the Audio
Configuration section of the Audio inspector. See Enable or disable an audio
component.
• Show expanded role components in the timeline, then edit them as you would a
standard audio component. You can adjust volume, pan audio, add audio effects,
and so on.
If you want to assign different roles to specific clips within the compound clip, you can
open the compound clip for editing and then assign subroles to individual components of
the constituent clips.
For more information about compound clips, see
Intro to compound clips in Final Cut Pro.