Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1498)

Chapter 11 Exporting Audio for Mixing in Other Applications 147
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Exporting Audio Tracks to Individual Audio Files
If you have a lot of source audio in your sequence that wasn’t captured with timecode,
or if you need to export your audio to a video system that doesn’t support OMF import,
you can export each audio track to its own audio file. These files can then be imported
into a multitrack audio application. The disadvantage of this method is that it doesn’t
preserve your edit points because all of the audio clips on each track your become one
audio file. Your audio editor then has to manually edit each track to get back to the
original clips. You also cannot include handles (additional media on either side of a clip)
on your audio clips this way.
Before following the steps below, make a duplicate of your sequence and use that
duplicate for the export process. This leaves your original edited sequence untouched.
Individual audio clips in a
typical sequence
Individual audio clips
have been consolidated
into single large clips
with the duration of
the sequence