User Manual

Working with Multiple Tracks
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The following characteristics apply to audio track monitoring:
• The system pans odd-numbered mono tracks to the left speaker and even-numbered mono
tracks to the right speaker by default. Stereo tracks include channels for the left and right
speakers, with the stereo mix panned to the center.
• If your sequence includes more than 16 audio tracks, you can select any 16 tracks to monitor
at one time by selecting the Audio Track Monitor button for each audio track you want to
monitor. The Audio Track Monitor button displays either with a black border (primary
monitored audio track) or without the black border (monitored audio track), when you select
the audio track for monitoring playback and output.
• An Audio Track Monitor button with a black border indicates that the tracks are the primary
monitored tracks and audio information is not dropped when the play speed increases during
scrubbing. By default, the Avid editing application sets the two top audio tracks as the
primary monitored tracks. For more information about setting an audio track to ensure it is
not dropped during scrubbing, see “Selecting Tracks for Audio Scrubbing” on page 769.
• To hear more than 16 tracks at once, you must mix down some of them to a maximum of 16.
For more information, see “Mixing Down Audio Tracks” on page 835.
• By default, all monitored audio tracks are selected for scrubbing. To isolate specific audio
tracks for scrubbing, see “Soloing Audio Tracks” on page 767.
• By default, Direct Out maps all audio tracks in numerical sequence to existing output
channels.
• You can customize the output of audio tracks, as described in “Setting Audio Output
Options” on page 1056.
Advantages of Solo Monitoring
When editing, you can isolate individual video or audio tracks for monitoring without having to
deselect monitoring of all other tracks.
Solo monitoring provides several advantages:
• You can eliminate slow cueing and playback when working with a complex sequence by
monitoring a specific track.
• You can view any individual layer of a composited effect.
• You can isolate an individual audio track with a single mouse click (without manually
deselecting the other audio tracks).
• You can isolate audio tracks for audio scrubbing without having to deselect monitoring of all
other audio tracks.