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September 19, 2019
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Bypass track effects for specific clip on track (without creating new track)?

  • September 19, 2019
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I have a number of effects on a dialogue track. I like the way the effects sound on most parts of the dialogue, but there are few short parts that don't sound how I want them. Instead of trying to finagle the track effects so that they fit all parts of the dialogue perfectly, I was wondering if it's possible to bypass my track effects on a specific clip.

 

Alternative solution: I know I could create a new track, move the offending clip to that track and apply new effects. However, this clutters up my session. I sent my sessions off to a team to work with and I want them to be as uncluttered as possible. I could use clip effects, but that (as I understand it) applies effects downsteam of track effects, instead of creating a separate FX chain. 

 

Thoughts?

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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Community Expert
September 19, 2019

Yes it's true - clip effects are applied downstream of track effects, and there's no way around that. But why use track effects anyway? My inclination would be to create a clip effects chain and use it on the clips where it's appropriate, and another clip effects chain to use on the others - or indeed as many as you need. Bypass the track effects problem completely!

Known Participant
October 2, 2019
I definitely see the value of using track effects, as opposed to clip level effects when I'm editing dialogue with hundreds of clips. But I was able to get around it by just creating a new track with no track effects and applying clip effects to the few clips that needed something different than the main track effects chain I was relying on for that speaker.