Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 650)

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.
Individual audio items Video item
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, you have a 16-angle
multiclip with four audio items and 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.
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