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Enable and disable tracks

Enable and disable tracks - Media Composer Tutorial

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Enable and disable tracks

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- [Instructor] Media Composer has two ways control whether you can or cannot see or hear the contents of a track on the timeline. Well, actually it's two ways for the video tracks and a couple of ways for the audio, they're separate controls. In addition to this, you can also select an item in a sequence, right click on it, and choose mute clips. Course, you can have multiple clips selected. Here, for example, I've got a clip on the video two track on this enable tracks sequence that I've made very blue with a color correction effect. You can see a green line along here showing the effect has been applied. In fact, I've set up these clips with multiple colors to demonstrate how this works. If I wanted to hide just this clip rather than everything on the track I can select it, right click, and choose mute clips. And now, although the clip is still present and I can edit it and make changes to it, it's not visible. Right click and unmute I think the use of the word mute is a little…

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