Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 673)

To learn more about using the J, K, and L keys for scrubbing, see “Navigating and Using
Timecode in the Viewer and Canvas.”
Turning Off the Audio Scrubbing Sounds
As you’re editing audio, you may find the sound of scrubbing through audio distracting
when you move the playhead from one location to another. You can turn off audio
scrubbing in the Viewer so that you don’t hear any sound as you scrub through a clip.
Note: This control affects audio scrubbing in the Canvas and Timeline, as well as in the
Viewer.
To turn audio scrubbing off
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Choose View > Audio Scrubbing, so that there’s no checkmark next to it (or press Shift-S).
Tip: You can temporarily stop audio scrubbing by dragging the top of the playhead
(yellow triangle) as you scrub.
About Setting Edit Points for Audio
You set edit points in the audio tabs of the Viewer in the same way that you set edit
points in the Viewer’s Video tab. Whether your clips have been opened from the Browser
in preparation for editing into a sequence, or opened from a sequence in the Timeline
for trimming, edit points work the same way.
Sometimes you want to set the In and Out points of your audio at different spots from
those of your video, such as when you cut away from a visual of someone talking to show
something else while the talking voice continues on the audio track. This is called a split
edit (for more information, see
“Split Edits” ).
Dragging an Audio Clip to the Canvas, Browser, or Timeline
To move an audio clip from the Viewer to the Canvas, Browser, or Timeline, use the drag
hand at the top of the audio tab. (Clicking the waveform itself moves the playhead to
the frame you clicked, and does not select the clip for dragging.)
Use the drag hand to
move an audio file.
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