The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro X, 3rd Edition

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monitoring and/or output. You could choose to view your movie with or without

Titles, for example. Perhaps you have several different subtitle streams, you could

use Roles to defi ne from the set of subtitles what is included while monitoring, or

for fi nal output.

I think of Roles as being like a giant patching bay where the operator will choose

to route whatever elements they wish to include or remove from output.

Assigning Roles

Nothing could be simpler than assigning Roles to media. Ideally, this should be

done early on, during organization, before

you begin editing.

Audio roles can be assigned in the Import

Window when media ...