A track is like one instrument in your symphony, or one voice in your podcast. You can add more tracks, and all of them will be mixed together to create your final output, but during editing you can manipulate each track independently. If you have an interview recorded with two microphones, each one can go in a separate track. If you have background music, that could go in a third track.
A non-empty track contains at least one clip. A clip is a piece of continuous audio, for example a recording or a background song. Clips can be moved along the Timeline so that they play at a different point in time in the mix, as well dragged between tracks. See Audacity Tracks and Clips for details of how clips work within tracks.
The image below shows the separate components of an Audacity stereo track: the Track Control Panel with Audio Track Dropdown Menu, the Vertical Scale and the Waveform Display itself, typical of a finally edited recording. As per convention, the upper waveform and vertical scale represent the left channel and the lower waveform and vertical scale represent the right channel. The dark blue part of the waveform displays the tallest peak and the light blue part of the waveform displays the average RMS (Root Mean Square) value of the audio, see The waveform colors for more detail.
In a stereo track, all editing actions on the track are applied identically to both channels, though some effects may treat each channel differently. For exaample, Effect > Amplify and by default Effect > Normalize set the peak amplitude of only the loudest channel then apply the same change in amplitude to the other channel, preserving the balance between channels. Normalize has an option to normalize left and right channels independently to the same amplitude if this is required. See Amplify and Normalize for more details.
A single audio track has the same components as a stereo track with a single waveform and one vertical scale rather than two. This can be easily seen if using "Split Stereo Track" in the Track Dropdown Menu to split the stereo track into two single tracks. The same menu can make single tracks mono, left or right. Each single track can be separately selected and thus edited independently from other tracks.
The track that has focus is the track that accepts any command whose name includes "focused track". These commands include commands such as "Close focused track" (Shift + C), "Mute/Unmute focused track" (Shift + U) and "Toggle focused track" (RETURN or Enter, which toggles whether the focused track is selected or not).
The complete list of "focused track" commands can be seen by searching for "focused track" (without quotes) in Keyboard Preferences or by viewing the description of these commands in Keyboard Shortcut Reference.
I want to see the audio track labels in the timeline so I know very fast what track I'm working on.
It's possible with adding comments for sequences but not for subclips. It's also possible to rename the MXF-files manually, but nobody wants to do that.
I want to see the audio information from the bin in the timeline.
I mean, I would like to be able to see every column from the bin in the timeline. So I could use tags that I can see in the timeline. But that's another request.
Right now, it would be great to see the audio track labels.
This needs to be a feature! I've asked for it many times in the facebook group and pointed this out. Now that i know this is the official place for feature requests... yes yes yes give us this. Esepcially now that you can change mic channel in the timeline. I've made macros to manually rename the tracks on sync clips to make that drop down populated with the mic labels. It's a bit of a pain and makes it not quite worth the effort. It should just be automatic .The data is RIGHT THERE for hte taking. This would be such an easy thing to implement.
I am trying to add audio to one of my audio tracks in Shotcut. It is not letting me do so. I will drag it in and it will not go into the audio track. It is and MP3 file. It will come up with a not allowed sybol as the cursor This is the what the cursor turns into. ) as I hover over it with the MP3 file.
when i am placing audio file below the video, video is shifting/ running away from the audio file even after opening it as admin.if i am trying again (trying to put audio file below the video ) then video is getting
If you vertically expand the Mix track you should be able to click the little keyframe icon and check the effects to see if there is any kind of animation going on with them. It's not that easy to accidentally add a keyframe to that track but take a look here to see if there is anything under that Output Gain or whatever parameter you're struggling with.
If I change the output gain of the compressor effect, it also changes the output gain for track mixer at the same time. Like I said before though, no matter what I change it to, it always goes back to 10db.
I'm trying to play a vst and have it record into a separate audio track but I can't seem to figure it out. new to studio one from Live 11 and it was very straightforward there. any way someone could help?
I created a new audio track in CS5 Premiere. I called it Lav 2 (for lavaliere 2) and am trying to drag an audio track onto that track.
But Premiere won't let me do it. If I try to drag it onto the track it tries to put it on the track above it. Or if I release the track it ends up several tracks down, on Track 11.
What is preventing me from dragging that audio track onto the empty audio track that I just created?
Thanks
mine doing the same thing but it with an aculty video when i put the video onto my timeline it puts the video into video1 but puts the audio into audio 5 why cant i get it to go to audio 1 infact it seem to only go into one it makes or has already created with that clip
If you still can't seem to get into Audio 1, another option once you have dropped the video and audio into the timeline would be to Delete all of the empty Audio Tracks. That should boost your Audio 5 into the Audio 1 position.
I have seen several threads about a similar issue. However, most of them concluded that there was more than one audio track marked as default. This is not my case...
Regardless of which audio track is selected on the Roku, it always plays the not default audio track. For example, there are 3 tracks. Default = 5.1 DTS English, 2.0 English, 2.0 Spanish. No matter which is selected, it always plays the spanish track. And when I display the "stats for nerds" it doesn't show the spanish track as what is supposed to be getting played.
(Note that the handler_name inherited the "Surround 7.1" descriptor from the original DTS HD MA on the bluray and I was too lazy to manually edit the name in Handbrake for every stream of every episode when transcoding. As I understand it, this is just a name assignment and doesn't actually matter much for functionality. I wish the audio selection routines were more detailed and more functional (I told it not to allow DTS HD and it still does, so I had to manually change to the second audio stream which was plain DTS 5.1 with DTS passthrough for each episode, there are a lot of episodes... - If someone can help me get that part to work better, I'd appreciate it, as well as getting the selection behavior for subtitles to burn in only the forced parts of a normal subtitle stream. I can manually check the boxes, but can't get them automatically checked from the selection behavior).
Any ideas why I'm not able to select any of the available audio streams from the Roku?
Why does it start transcoding the video after a "playback correction" at double the frame rate (and double the bitrate)?
Where I can take a class for interpreting the Emby ffmpeg log? I wonder about that last one for an unrelated issue where I was experimenting with an MKV container and it had to transcode the video to add graphical subtitles and had a nice little nugget in there that said something to the effect of "Hardware subtitle overlay disabled do to selected diagnostic options". It was not able to keep up with a 1080p video transcode while there were a couple of other transcodes also going on at the same time.
Which leads me to another question... why does Emby jump straight to the transcode option for audio and/or video, when that playback device can also receive direct play? For example, I disable that user account's permission to watch transcoded anything, yet that exact same video file still plays just fine on that same end device? And why even though it has a stereo stream built in, does it still transcode 5.1 to stereo (instead of just serving the stereo stream)? I would really like to force it to not transcode anything unless it truly is absolutely necessary since my Emby server isn't running on the most powerful hardware ever made.
I do not see any indication that there is a forced flag on the Spanish track (although I may not . However, I did just note that the others are AAC and the Spanish is AC3. There is also a strange "Side Data" that none of the other tracks have. Perhaps this is overriding the "Default" flag that is on the English 5.1?
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