Using parts of multiple tracks, A1, A2, A3, etc. with V1

Question

I have a video with the reference audio and a better track from the church and a Tascam voice recorder. I use the church recording for most of it, but the reference track or Tascam track is better in sections. Normally I would mute the reference audio, but the mute silences the whole track. How can I use different parts of different tracks. I tried copying or duplicating the audio and put parts I want from each of 3 tracks on it and soloing the final track, but couldn't do it.

It is instead of multi-cam, but "multi-audio" I would like. Like 5 minutes from A1, 2 minutes from A2, 3 minutes from A1 again, 6 minutes from A3, 4 minutes from A1 again, etc.

SamLanes · Accepted Answer

Yes, I think my method will be able to help you. I apologise though - I realise the language I have used may be confusing.

Instead of saying 'disable/enable' the TRACKS, I should have said 'CLIPS'.

Just as an example to show what I mean, select one of the smaller clips, for example, on track 2, so that it is highlighted.

When highlighted, go to 'Clip' at the top, and where it says 'enable' with a tick next to it, click it so that the tick disappears (note the keyboard shortcut there too - that will save you time).

You should notice that when you now click away from the clip you have disabled, the colour of the clip will be a darker shade of green than the others in the track. This indicates that the clip is disabled, and when you play back over that section, you won't hear the audio from that clip.

You can repeat the process above to re-enable the clip.

You can do this process to disable any of the clips that you don't want to hear at any point in the playback.

When you come to export the clip, it will only export the 'enabled' clips into the exported clip.

The advantage of doing it this way is that you will still have all of the clips left in sync and in order, in case you want to make edits later on.

Let me know if this helps. If not, I might have to try doing a screen capture to demonstrate.

SamLanes · Answer

In the past, when I have multiple tracks of audio, I will slice through all of the tracks where I want the audio track to change (by placing the current time indicator where I want it, selecting the audio clips, and clicking Cmd+K), and then disable the tracks I don't want (by highlighting the tracks and pressing Shift+Cmd+E or going to 'Clip' at the top, and deselecting 'Enable'.)

This way, you will still have all of the tracks available, but only the one track that you need playing at once.

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