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# Audio Patching

If you want to capture audio from a different track than that specified in the EDL, you can change the audio patching for a single event, selected events, or all events on the same tape. For example, if an edit specifies the audio tracks as 1 and 2, but you want to capture the audio from tracks 3 and 4, use the Audio Patching menu to reroute the audio during auto-capture.

NoteYou can also specify the patch tracks from the Engineering menu when you want to affect the whole capture session. See Audio Track Patching.

To change audio patching:

1. In the EDL work area, select the events that you want to modify.
2. Click an Audio Patch field.

   The Audio Patching menu appears.

   (a) Audio Patch boxes(b) Source audio track(c) Destination audio track

   You can edit the source audio tracks. Each one of the eight available source audio tracks can be patched to one of the eight available destination audio tracks. You can patch the same source audio track to multiple destination audio tracks.

3. Enable or disable the Affect Tape and Affect Selection buttons. See Editing Group.
4. Reroute the audio in the Audio Patch boxes by doing one of the following:
   - Drag in an Audio Patch box to cycle through source audio tracks one through eight.
   - Click an Audio Patch box to access the calculator, then type a value one through eight indicating the source audio track.
5. Click Return.

   To exit the Audio Patching menu without changing the patching information, click Cancel.

   The source tracks that have been patched to different audio tracks than the defaults are indicated in the affected event's Audio Patch Field. Dashes in the Audio Patch Field indicate the track is patched to its default. Comments are also added which indicate the name of audio tracks and their patching information.

   When clips are captured, audio tracks are patched as indicated.

   (a) Comments indicate patching information(b) Source 1 and 2 patched to destinations 5 and 6