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Working with tracks

Working with tracks - Media Composer Tutorial

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Working with tracks

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- [Instructor] It's common, of course, for your sequences to have more than one video track, and more than one audio track. You can have up to 64 audio tracks and 32 video tracks, although that can get a little unwieldy to navigate. Audio tracks are all played together, to produce one complete audio mix. But video tracks play in such a way that clips on upper video tracks, appear in front of clips on lower video tracks. So for example, you would put graphics and titles, on upper tracks in front of your background video. You can add video and audio tracks by right clicking on the background of the timeline panel and choosing New. In this case, I'll choose Video Track. And now I have a video two, or I can click on the timeline menu at the top of the interface, I have exactly the same new sub-menu. And here I can choose different types of audio track. You'll want to use the right kind of audio track, for your source…

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