How to Use Timeline Audio Controls in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is CJ South representing expertvillage.com, in this clip I’m going to show you some of the timeline audio controls. Now let’s talk about some of the timeline audio controls, if you notice to left here you have these separate controls if you don’t see these they’re not toggled, just come to the bottom left corner and just click this little button right here and that will toggle those for you. So you have three different buttons here you’ve got the solo button, the mute button and then the audible button, now the solo button does just that if you’re familiar with any other editing audio programs you click that and it’ll solo out everything on that track, as you see it just muted the other three tracks and now this is the only one soloed, this is the only one playing. And then the mute button you click that it’ll mute the track and you can solo multiple ones at the same time if you prefer or just one of them, whatever you want, now the audible button does the same thing as mute and solo, as you can see it’s great out which means it’s not going to play now the only difference is when you click the audible button, what happens is if you had to render anything on your audio once you click those buttons it gets rid of the render, so now once you bring it back you have to re-render the audio so it’s a really great idea to use solo and mute a lot when you’re just trying to hear one track at a time. So let me give you an example this is what they sound together…it should be pretty mumbled, okay yeah that’s really jumbled up you can’t tell one song from the next so I can click solo or I can just mute these two, I prefer to use solos, the great thing about these two is you can do it the fly so as its playing I can change these…so now as you can see you can hear each track separately so it’s a great tool for previewing and monitoring audio."