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Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing
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Roles provide a way to categorize your video clips based on how they will be used in video or audio terms: Music, Dialogue, Sound Effects, Titles, or Video. You can go crazy and define your own Video and Audio Roles, or you can use the built-in Roles that I just listed. Each Role can be further split into Subroles, so a Role named Dialogue can have Subroles named for each of the languages you plan to support.
Even more amazingly, if you have a high-end, multi-track audio recorder with iXML support, you can name its inputs on the device and they’ll be mapped to Roles automatically — magic:
Figure 3.35: The default Roles include the basics — add more if you wish
The power of Roles is seen during the editing process, where the Roles decide the color of each clip. Audio is deemed more important than video here, and the color of a clip’s Audio Role takes precedence. Therefore, if a clip has usable...
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