Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 561)

226 Part II Rough Editing
3 Choose Modify > Link (or press Command-L).
Note: When you open linked items in the Viewer, each linked mono audio clip item or
stereo pair of clip items appears in an Audio tab in the Viewer.
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Tip: Dragging linked clip items from the Timeline into the Browser creates a single
merged clip containing those items. This makes managing your media and keeping it
in sync much easier, especially if you want to use it in other sequences. For more
information on working with merged clips, see Chapter 3, “
Merging Clips From Dual
System Video and Audio ,” on page 45.
Unlinking Video and Audio Clip Items
When you don’t want audio and video clip items to be linked in the Timeline, you can
unlink them.
To break the link between clip items:
1 Select one or more linked items in the Timeline.
2 Choose Modify > Link (or press Command-L).
Names of linked clip
items are underlined in
the Timeline.