Audio clips in the Viewer window

When I double click on an audio track from the timeline, to place into the viewer window, the tab always reads "Stereo (a1a2)" indicating the top (uppermost) track when I have clicked on the (A7A8) track. I have tried using the "Auto Select" toggle with no change. Also, once an audio clip appears in the viewer, all my previous tabs such Video, etc. disappear...Any suggestions?

It doesn't seem to make sense that you are required to place the tracks into the viewer window for subsequent editing and the viewer has no way to identify what track you are working on???
That's because - as FCP sees it - although you are working from a clip already placed into the Timeline (hence the sprocket holes in the Viewer's scrubber bar) all the relevant info references the clip as it was captured or imported.
That is, even though your clip might be placed at 1:00:00;00 in the Timeline, it's In point is at, say, 0:35:24;17 in the clip's own timecode.
If you've clicked on audio, the Viewer will display audio as sequential tracks for the clip (remember FCP 5 can have up to 24 tracks of audio for a clip). In FCP's way of thinking a1a2 are it's way of letting you know that there are only 2 audio tracks (a stereo pair) in your clip.
And, yes, the logic can be quite dangerous.

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Please help me with that I'm getting desperate ! I need to finish a project within one week :(
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Hi F. Carl
The clip is intact and it has video and audio.
I have worked on it before and all was fine until I lost the work when it got frozen!
The issue is:
I have a (MOV.) ready clip that I wanted to edit a bit, hence I have imported the clip (import media) and whenever I try to work on it, the black screen prohibits me from doing anything.
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And, since I don't have an audio levels meter on my camera, I don't really KNOW what level I'm recording at; so, beyond knowing the dynamic range of my equipment, can I assume that after ingesting into FCE, upon playback, if the floating levels meter is not going red, and the waveform in the Viewer is not clipped at the peaks or valleys, that I have good sound?
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You cannot drag the effects themselves to the timeline. You add them to a clip in the Viewer, just as you have done.
If the clip was already in the timeline when you opened it in the Viewer (by double-clicking it in the timeline to open it in the Viewer) and then added the reverb effect, there is nothing further to do, you have added the effect to the clip. You don't drag it back to the timeline.
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http://documentation.apple.com/en/logicpro/usermanual/Art/S01/S0185_WaveZoom.png
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http://documentation.apple.com/en/logicpro/usermanual/Art/S09/S0931_CUS_Waveform Zoom2.png
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I have sent in a recommendation to map the brushes individually so you don't have to select the brush icon then the brush you want. But I am just wondering if there is a way somewhere to do this and I just don't know about it?
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