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Patch tracks - Media Composer Tutorial

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Patch tracks

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- [Instructor] There are essentially three ways to add a clip to a sequence. You're either going to drag and drop with the mouse you're going to use a button on screen or you're going to use a keyboard shortcut. For this lesson, I'm going to use the button on screen. I want you to see clearly what's going on. And I've opened a sequence here. This is my track patching sequence. You can see the name at the top of the Timeline window. And I've opened up a clip that has some video and audio in it. Now I know that it's got video and audio because if I look on the far left of the Timeline window I can see there's a V1 and A1 track enable button. So I can see that I can access these parts of the clip if I want to. Just to the right, I've got my Timeline tracks. And I've already added V1, two, three and four and A1, two, three, and four. Coincidentally, the reason new sequences are created by default with one video track and two audio tracks is because the Timeline setting in the project…

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