Apple Final Cut Express HD: Getting Started - Manual (Page 31)

Chapter 2 Getting to Know Your Editing Environment 31
Timeline Editing Controls
The following controls determine how your clips are edited into the Timeline tracks.
• Source and Destination controls: Use these controls to designate which video and
audio tracks from source clips in the Viewer are edited into which video and audio
destination tracks in the Timeline.
The number of available Source controls corresponds to the number of tracks in the
source clip (or sequence) currently in the Viewer. For example, a typical clip has one
video track and two audio tracks. In this case, one video and two audio Source
controls will appear in the Timeline. If, instead, you open a clip into the Viewer that
has one video track and four audio tracks, then one video and four audio Source
controls appear in the Timeline.
Every track in your sequence also has a Destination control. By assigning source tracks
to destination tracks using these controls, you determine which media items go into
which tracks when edits are performed. For more information about Source and
Destination controls, see Final Cut Express Help, Chapter 14, “Working in the Timeline.”
• Track Visibility control: This control determines whether the contents of a track are
displayed and rendered in your sequence. When a track is invisible, it appears
darkened in the Timeline, but its contents remain in your sequence and can still be
edited. When you play back your sequence, invisible tracks don’t appear in the
Canvas, nor will they be rendered or output to tape with that sequence. You can
make a track visible or invisible at any time.
• Mute and solo controls: Use these controls to enable and disable audio playback on
individual tracks for monitoring purposes. These controls do not suspend audio
output during the Print to Tape operation, or when exported to a movie or audio file.
Destination control
Source control
Track Visibility controls
Solo control
Mute control
Lock Track control
Auto Select control
Locked tracks are
cross-hatched.