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Ganging the monitors

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Ganging the monitors

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- Earlier we added our second line of buttons at the bottom of the composer window. And one of the buttons I didn't explain is this one. This is the gang button. The gang button gangs together, or synchronizes, the player monitor and the record monitor, and it allows you to check the timing of two events in your sequence and in your player monitor. I'll give you an example. So here I've got a clip where somebody is jumping, and in the source monitor, I've got the beginning of the same shot, in fact. And let's say I'm considering having the clip begin earlier, somewhere like here, for example, and in the timeline window, I'm going to hold control or command, to snap play head to the beginning of the clip. So these are the two points in time I'm interested in, and I just want to see how they play out, how they compare in terms of timing. So I'm going to turn on the gang option. You can see it light up in green here on both…

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