Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 857)

72 Part I Audio Mixing
Track Strips Area
In a typical audio mixer, each channel has a corresponding channel strip with level
and pan controls. In the Final Cut Pro Audio Mixer, each track in your sequence has a
corresponding track strip with mute, solo, pan, and audio level controls. If a track’s Track
Visibility control is deselected in the Track Visibility area, its track strip does not appear
here. If an audio track is disabled in the Timeline, that track’s track strip controls
are dimmed.
The Track Strips area includes the following controls:
 Track name: Corresponds to the audio track in the current sequence (or in the Viewer).
 Mute button: Click to turn off audio playback for that track. The same mute button is
available in the Timeline. Use the mute button to quickly mute or unmute a track
while your sequence plays. For example, if you want to briefly compare what your
audio mix sounds like with and without the track, you can use the mute button while
the sequence plays.
Muting a track does not delete pan or audio level keyframes, nor does it prevent
fader automation. Muting tracks only affects playback; muted tracks are still output
during Print to Video and Edit to Tape operations, and during export to audio or
movie files.
Note: To prevent a track from being output or exported, you need to disable the
track in the Timeline. For more information, see Volume II, Chapter 8, “Working with
Tracks in the Timeline.”
Solo button Mute button
Track name
Panning slider
Fader
Track audio level meter