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There's this awesome functionality 
within Final Cut Pro called "roles."

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It allows you to organize your clips in 
a very unique way. I'll show you how.

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The roles feature is a great tool that 
helps you keep your timeline organized.

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You may have noticed that the clips 
in our timeline are assigned colors.

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These colors correspond to the default roles that Final Cut Pro assigns to our clips when we import them. 

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This clip is purple for the title.

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This clip is dark blue for video.

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This audio clip is blue for dialogue.

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This clip is teal for sound effects.

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And this clip is green for music.

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When you import clips, Final Cut Pro will 
automatically analyze and assign roles if you have the assign role setting set to "automatic."

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For the most part Final Cut Pro is pretty 
accurate at assigning the correct role.

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But for items like this sound effect, it may 
categorize it incorrectly as a dialogue clip.

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So if a role is assigned 
incorrectly, how do you fix it?

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Well, let's show you.

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Start by selecting the clip that 
you want to assign a new role to.

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Then, navigate to the Inspector on the top right.

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If the Inspector is not 
visible, click on this icon.

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And click on the audio Inspector button.

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Then, locate the "audio configuration" section.

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To change the assigned role 
for an audio component, click its roles pop-up menu and choose a different sub-role. 

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This is a sound effect, so we'll choose 
"Effect."

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After assigning a new role, the clip's color will update in the timeline.

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An even faster way to assign roles is hold 
"Control" and click on the clip in the timeline.

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Then choose "Assign Audio Roles," 
then choose a role from the sub menu.

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We hope that learning about roles in Final 
Cut Pro has helped you organize your clips and get you going a little bit quicker on your next project.  

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