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Using lanes: How they give some level of "tracks"

Using lanes: How they give some level of "tracks" - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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Using lanes: How they give some level of "tracks"

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- When you get a lot of audio involved in your timeline, you're going to want to begin to use those roles, that metadata from earlier to explore how lanes work. Lanes allow me to break audio up into segmented areas. Let's see how lanes work. Roles is the idea that clips can belong to different sort of meta-groupings, and you're going to find this here under the Edit menu, and you can see I've got one already pre-built for titles and video. And I've got four here for audio. Dialogue, effects, music and just generalized audio. You can actually break these into other sub-roles You might consider making video or dialogue broken into individual actors. My timeline at the moment doesn't have roles assigned We're going to take a second and we're going to quickly assign the roles with the timeline index, and then we're going to come back and we're going to see how lanes really allow us to focus in on what we need to edit audio-wise. So I'm going to hit cancel here for a moment. And I'm going…

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