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.
There is an entry in the Tracks Preferences for Display samples. This setting changes how Waveform and Waveform dB views are displayed. It only affects the appearance of the waveform when you are so far zoomed in that you can see the individual sample dots. At lower zoom levels it makes no difference.
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 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
As Ann mentions, you cannot change an Audio Track, but you can create new ones, with the proper channel-count, and can do so, pretty much where you want, in the Audio Track lineup. You can also Delete Unused Tracks (either Audio, or Video, or both), so that if you have one mono Track up top, followed by some stereo Tracks, you can create your additional mono Tracks below that existing one.
Also, if you do not have the proper Audio Track already, if you drag your Audio Asset to the lower portion of the Master Audio Track, PrPro will create one with the proper channel-count, but this will be done just above the Master Audio Track, so if you want to group your Tracks by channel-count, I'd manually create that, where you want it.
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.
Most keyboards you should be able to record the midi output and then you can edit the track to clean up mistakes etc and change the tempo very easily. It is not that easy to change the tempo of audio and I've never done it so sorry have no answer for that.
Turn On Audio Snap for the clip(s)you wish to change. Click the option for Clip follows project (stretch). Select Mix Radius for Offline algorithm. Change the Tempo(s) of the song. Bounce to clip for best sound when happy with the tempos.
Charles , If you now have an "audio" track of your midi performance it's pretty easy to change. If the track is cut up from edits , first do a bounce to clips so it's all one clip. Select the clip , go to the very end of it and put a marker there. Change the bpm of your project. You'll now see the end of the clip moved away from the marker. Right click your edit "tool" (top of the page with he wrench) and choose "stretch". Grab the very end of your clip again , click and drag it back to the marker. Turn the stretch tool back off ! A few bpm can make a big difference.. mark
you have to bounce your track/clip after a tempo change to apply the high quality algorithm.. I still like to use Radius Mix for best quality, I've compared it to the newer Elastique Pro and in my ears Radius Mix always wins by a strand of a hair, it may depend on the source (type of music, etc)
I thought this would be an easy task by right clicking the instrument track and creating an fx track from it or selecting the instrument as the first input in a new audio track but this has got me beat.
On the instrument track, press the (e) near the top of the right hand pane (your track overview will open) Near the top of that window where you can select your ins and outs, select the output and from the dropdown list, select the group track you created.
Create your Audio Track. On the Audio Track, press the (e) near the top of the right hand pane (your track overview will open), near the top of that window where you can select your ins and outs, select the input and from the dropdown list, select the group track you created.
Hello - can I just ask - I have the same problem as described above - I am never able to route a group track to audio - I am running Cubase Artist - is it possible that this feature does not exist in the Artist version?
My problem appears to be that I either miss to hand ffmpeg the correct mapping of the tracks (the file has a two audio tracks already and a number of subtiles, which appear to count too), so that I receive the "Number of stream maps must match the number of output streams" (quoted from memory), or I even geht the whole stream/map concept wrong.
In version 16, I was able to unlink the audio from the video track by pressing U. I did this primarily for audio tracks that got out of sync with the video. I could select the audio track and slip it until sync was restored. In version 19, that no longer applies. The audio track stays connected to the video track.
Assuming it is not a bug and other folks do not experience the same behavior, you might try uninstall / reinstall again, but uninstall using a third-party uninstaller like 'Revo Uninstall' that can also remove left-over registry entries and other pertinent data the default Windows uninstall leaves behind, which in usually the root of recurring issues.
Revo Uninstall has both pro, freeware and portable versions.The freeware version is usually adequate. The pro version has additional tools like 'advanced scan' and 'forced uninstall', which you probably will not need.
I selected the audio and it WILL NOT move from audio 4 & 5 no matter what I do. I tried copy/paste, I tried putting one person after the other and dragging, I tried moving the audio separately from video (selection tool, alt, and drag). None of the tracks are locked.
The only other thing to watch for, as has been mentioned is whether you are trying to put a mono clip in a stereo track. If it is a stereo track it will have two little stereo speakers in the track heading, and mono will have one. If you need more mono tracks simply add them.
Hi, realise this reply is about a year late but its helpful for anyone in the future who has this problem, all you have to do is resave the file format as a WMA and you can paste the sound anywhere you want. This problem drove me crazy until i actually used my brain and worked out the answer!
It would not allow me to relink. More importantly I dont know why it took it off line. I did not remove any files unless I sleepwalking. This software in my opinion is very buggy. It has caused a lot of tension since I pruchased it back in Dec.
Andy, Thanks for your help. But I didnt touch any of the settings after adding a voice-over track. When I came to finish the next morning, those tracks were offline. What do I need to learn to prevent this again? Your not sure what happen either.
In the early days of FCP X there was no facility to re-link files but if you dragged the original file from Finder over the clip in FCP X, it would over-write it and (sometimes) it would work again. I can't guarantee it, but it's surely worth a try.
No offence meant, by the way, but with a username like yours, you're not going to win any friends around here - as I said, the app doesn't suck, it's a truly great application that, as a pro user of legacy FCP from version 3, I can tell you has saved me hundreds of hours.
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