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Overwriting Vs. Layering Clips That Overlap
When you add clips to the Timeline, what happens when you add a clip that overlaps another clip that’s already in the track you’re editing to depends on the Timeline > Layered Audio Editing setting. By default, with Layered Audio Editing turned off, overwriting one audio clip with another results in the overlapping part of the overwritten clip being non-destructively deleted from the Timeline by the incoming clip.
However, if you turn Layered Audio Editing on, then incoming clips do not overwrite overlapping clips in the Timeline; instead, they’re layered within that track, such that the incoming audio clip takes precedence over what was previously there, but overlapping audio segments that were previously in the Timeline are preserved, which can be seen when you choose View > Show Audio Track Layers.
In this way, you can choose whether you want to overwrite previously edited clips, or layer newly edited clips, as your needs require, regardless of whether or not Audio Track Layers are visible. Audio layering can be enabled in both the Edit and Fairlight pages.
For more information about audio layering, see the section later in this chapter.
Choosing Parts of Clips to Edit in the Media Pool
The Media Pool has a preview player at the top that provides a place to open selected source clips in the Media Pool, play them, add marks to log them, and set In and Out points in preparation for editing them into the Timeline via drag and drop. The Media Pool Preview Player effectively acts as a Source monitor for editing in the Fairlight page.
The preview player in the Media Pool
— Various viewing controls populate the title bar at the top. A drop-down menu at the upper left lets you choose a zoom level for the audio waveform that’s displayed. To the right of that, a Timecode window shows you the duration of the clip or the duration that’s marked with In and Out points. Next to the right, a real-time performance indicator shows you playback performance. In the center the title of the currently selected clip is shown, with a drop-down menu to the right that shows you the most recent 10 clips you’ve browsed. To the far left, a Timecode field shows you the current position of the playhead (right-clicking this opens a contextual menu with options to change the timecode that’s displayed, and to copy and paste timecode).
— The center of the Media Pool Preview Player shows you the waveforms in all channels of the currently selected clip, at whatever zoom level is currently selected.
— Transport controls at the bottom consist of a jog bar for scrubbing, Stop, Play, and Loop buttons, and In and Out buttons.