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Avoid adding tracks to your sequence
I source clips that come with more that 13 tracks of audio and video, my sequence have ten, all i need. Every time I need to insert part of it, I keep forgetting to deselect 11-13, and it keeps adding them and then I have to delete them. Is there an option to set your sequence to avoid adding new tracks?
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There is no way that I am aware of, other than either not capturing them (not possible if file based formats). It may be easier to simply lay them down, then turn the audio off on that track (desect the speaker Icon).
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You can change this behavior in the ‘Composer Settings’ panel. Open the panel by clicking in the Composer window to make it the active window, then either press Ctrl+= (win) or Cmd+= (mac), Right-click, or Ctrl-click in the timeline window.
The Composer settings panel has several tabs. Select the ‘Edit’ tab, and look for the checkbox called ‘Auto-create New Tracks’. Turn it off. This will prevent avid from automatically creating new tracks to accommodate whatever you’re adding to the sequence.
In the settings tab of the project window, you can duplicate your composer settings file, and switch between them simply by clicking in the space to the left of it. You can also use workspaces to automatically switch between groups of settings, so that if you find you like things set in different ways depending on the editing task at hand, you can use keyboard shortcuts to swap your settings instantly.
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Spotted a typo in my response:
[Lars Fuchs] “then either press Ctrl+= (win) or Cmd+= (mac), Right-click, or Ctrl-click in the timeline window.”
Should read:
then either press Ctrl+= (win) or Cmd+= (mac), Right-click, or Ctrl-click in the Composer window.
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Thanks Lars, I had a feeling there was a way but I couldn’t remember how.
best,
pc
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