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Enabling and Disabling Clips and Tracks
As you work in the Timeline, you’ll find there are times when you want to disable clips that you don’t want to appear during playback, without actually removing them from the edit. For example, you may decide to disable superimposed clips that are positioned as insert shots in the middle of a scene because of a client’s notes, but you don’t want to eliminate the clips because they might change their minds.
A disabled clip on track V2
In another example, you’ve edited a series of titles on track V3, so you need to disable track V3 in its entirety to output a textless version of the movie as a deliverable.
When a clip or track is disabled, clips within it appear dimmed, and these disabled clips don’t appear in the Color page, and aren’t output to tape or rendered to disk in the Deliver page until that track is re-enabled first.
Track V3 is disabled, making the Timeline textless as a result
— Select one or more clips, then right-click the selection and check or uncheck Enable Clip in the contextual menu, or press D to toggle a clip’s enabled state.
— Click the track enable button.