Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1220)

Temporarily Disabling a Single Clip
If, instead of disabling an entire track, you only want to disable a single clip temporarily,
you can do so. While a single clip is disabled, it will not be:
• Played back
• Rendered
• Output to tape with the rest of the sequence
To disable one or more clips
1 Select the clip or clips using one of the selection tools.
2 Do one of the following:
• Choose Modify > Clip Enable, so the menu item is no longer selected.
• Control-click one of the selected clips, then choose Clip Enable from the shortcut menu.
A disabled clip is dimmed in the Timeline, and its Clip Enable menu item is deselected.
To selectively disable a clip’s audio or video tracks
1 Do one of the following:
• Turn off linked selection, then select one or more audio or video items in the Timeline
using one of the selection tools.
• If linked selection is on, hold down the Option key to turn it off temporarily, then select
one or more audio or video items using one of the selection tools.
For more information about linked selection, see “Linking and Editing Video and Audio
in Sync.”
2 Do one of the following:
• Choose Modify > Clip Enable, so the menu item is no longer selected.
• Control-click one of the selected clips, then choose Clip Enable from the shortcut menu.
Individually disabled audio or video items also appear dimmed in the Timeline, although
their corresponding linked items are not dimmed.
Soloing Clips in Multitrack Sequences
When working with multiple tracks, you may find it helpful to quickly demo one clip
within a sequence to the exclusion of the clips above and below it on other tracks. This
helps you focus very closely on how one clip is working in a sequence. This feature, called
solo item, works by disabling all unselected clips in the Timeline that appear in other
tracks at the position of the playhead. In other words, any clips that overlap the “solo”
clip in time are excluded from playback.
To solo a clip
1 In the Timeline, position the playhead on the clip you want to solo.
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