Wednesday, May 4, 2016

How to mute working audio in FCPX without muting video as well

When round-tripping from FCPX to ProTools (or another audio editing/mixing app) and back, at the end of the mixing session, I bring my stereo DIAlog and MUSic stems into FCPX and sync them up.
Then I check proper sync against the working audio - still attached to the Video clips.
When all is good, it's time to mute the working audio.  But how to do it without muting image as well?
Normally you'd mute a clip by pressing "V", this mutes both audio and image.
To mute audio only, select all your clips, and Right Click (CTRL Click) Expand Audio Components
Then select only the audio portion of the clip and hit "V".  The audio component is selectively muted.  Right Click (CTRL Click) Collapse Audio Components, and Master away!

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