User Manual

Working with Multiple Tracks
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To resume editing on individual tracks:
t Click a Sync Lock button or the Sync Lock All button to remove the Sync Lock icon.
Adding and Deleting Tracks
Your Avid editing application lets you create up to 24 video and 24 audio tracks in the Timeline
when building a sequence. (You can monitor 16 audio tracks at a time.) You can also add a data
track, which is used for ancillary data. For more information, see “Preserving HD Closed
Captioning and Ancillary Data” on page 1091.
By default, new tracks are numbered consecutively. For example, if a sequence contains video
tracks numbered V1 and V2, a new video track is numbered V3. However, you can customize the
numbering, and you can also assign custom names to tracks.
You can remove one or more tracks from a sequence if you no longer need the tracks. When you
delete a track, you remove it permanently from the sequence. If you want to remove the track
temporarily, hide the tracks as described in “Customizing Timeline Views” on page 668.
To add a new track to a sequence, do one of the following:
t With a sequence loaded in the Record monitor, select the type of track you want to add:
- Select Clip > New Video Track.
- Select Clip > New Audio Track Mono.
- Select Clip > New Audio Track Stereo.
- Select Clip > New Meta Track.
- Select Clip > New Data Track.
t Right-click in the Timeline, and select one of the following:
- New Video Track.
- New Audio Track Mono.
- New Audio Track Stereo.
-New Meta Track.
-New Data Track.
The new track appears in the Timeline.
To add a new track to a sequence and customize its numbering:
1. Press and hold the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Macintosh) and select the type of track
you want to add:
t Select Clip > New Video Track.