Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 596)

Note: When you open linked items in the Viewer, each linked mono audio clip item or
stereo pair of clip items appears in an Audio tab in the Viewer.
Names of linked clip
items are underlined
in the Timeline.
Tip: Dragging linked clip items from the Timeline into the Browser creates a single merged
clip containing those items. This makes managing your media and keeping it in sync
much easier, especially if you want to use it in other sequences. For more information on
working with merged clips, see
“Merging Clips from Dual System Video and Audio.”
Unlinking Video and Audio Clip Items
When you don’t want audio and video clip items to be linked in the Timeline, you can
unlink them.
To break the link between clip items
1 Select one or more linked items in the Timeline.
2 Choose Modify > Link (or press Command-L).
596 Chapter 40 Linking and Editing Video and Audio in Sync