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Busses in Nested Timelines
When you nest a timeline inside another timeline that has busses set up for mixing in the Fairlight page, all bus routings continue to work as intended within the nested timeline, which exposes all channels via the default main bus (Bus 1) in the enclosing timeline. In this sense, the audio of the nested timeline can be considered to be a submix that outputs its resulting audio to the audio track it’s edited onto. However, you can also decompose your nested timeline into its own bus structure within the main timeline you’ve imported into, exposing all of the original tracks as they were.
This is a very powerful feature for combining work done at different times or by different contributors. For more information refer to section “Nested Audio Timelines”, see Chapter 173, “Mixing in the
Exposing Bus Tracks in the Timeline
You can expose any bus as a track in the Timeline. This makes it possible to view and edit automation that is applied to parameters on that bus.
1 Enable the Toggle Automation button on the Fairlight toolbar. All busses are visible by default.
2 If you want to hide any bus, open the Index, and click the eye button for the bus you want to hide in the Timeline.
3 If you want to work with automaton on a bus, choose the desired automation curve you want to view from the drop-down menu in the track header controls.
Controlling Signal Flow
A good process for setting up editing and mixing in the Fairlight page is:
— Organize and configure the tracks on your timeline as required. For example, clips well organized on tracks, set track types, color, grouping, etc.
— Create the busses needed to organize the desired signal flow in the mix.
— Route the audio tracks, or any submix busses to the desired bus destinations for the mix layout.
Defining Audio Track Types
If you decide to create a new audio track, you have to choose what kind of audio track it will be. Right- clicking in the bottom audio portion of the Timeline track header reveals a contextual sub-menu that lets you create different kinds of audio tracks.
— Mono: Holds a single channel with only one lane.
— Stereo: Holds stereo left and right channels, with two lanes.
— 5.1: Holds the six channels corresponding to a 5.1 surround mix, for a total of six lanes. For broadcast, SMPTE specifies Left, Right, Center, LFE, Surround Left, and Surround Right. For cinema distribution these tracks are ordered Left, Center, Right, Left Surround, Right Surround, and LFE.