The Solo Feature

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The Solo Feature

There are going to be times when you want to watch or listen to a track independent of the others. Each track has a monitor button. For the video tracks, this is a small television display. For the audio tracks, it's a speaker icon. If these monitors are turned off, you will not be able to view the track or hear the track if it's audio. These icons do not prevent you from performing an edit (see Figure 5.9).

Figure 5.9. To hear or watch a track, their display icons must be turned on. A Video icon looks like a monitor. Audio icons look like speakers .

Instead of turning on or off the track monitors to isolate a track, Avid Xpress Pro allows you to solo or single-out a track. Let's say you have eight audio tracks and you want to listen to track 3, which contains a voiceover. Instead of turning the monitor off on seven different tracks, Command-click (Macintosh OS) or Control-click (Windows) the speaker on track 3. The monitor icon becomes neon green. This is the only track you'll hear when you play through the sequence. You'll find out how handy this can become when working with multiple video tracks also.

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