Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 614)

Chapter 16 Working With Multiclips 279
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5 If you want, continue adding cuts by clicking different angles in the Viewer.
6 Press the Space bar to stop playback.
When playback stops, the cuts you made are added to the multiclip.
Switching and Cutting Video and Audio Items Separately
By default, when you switch or cut angles in a multiclip, both video and audio items of
a multiclip change together. Final Cut Pro allows you to change the active video and
audio items of a multiclip independently. This is helpful when you want to switch or cut
to a different video angle without changing the audio, or vice versa. For example, you
may need to cut video between four different camera angles, but keep dialogue audio
from angle 4 playing throughout. In this case, you need to tell Final Cut Pro to switch
only the video item, not the video and audio items together.
Note: A multiclip can have one active video item and up to 24 active audio items at a time.
When you switch video or audio independently, the results differ depending on
whether the multiclip in the Viewer is opened from the Browser or from a sequence.
This is because switching video and audio independently affects the linking
relationships between video and audio items.
 In a Browser clip, all items are always linked. Therefore, when you open a Browser
multiclip in the Viewer, all of the active audio items of the multiclip must come from
the same angle. Although you can switch video and audio items separately in a
Browser multiclip, you can’t switch individual audio items. For example, suppose you
have a 16-angle multiclip with four audio items. If you try to switch only audio item 4
to the audio in angle 2, all four audio items switch to the audio items in angle 2.
 In a sequence multiclip, you can change each audio item independently. For example,
if you have a sequence multiclip with four audio items open in the Viewer, you can
independently cut to a new angle for audio item 4 without changing the angles for
audio items 1–3.
Individual audio items
Video item