Laying audio tracks neatly on timeline?

Hi there,
I've been finding it difficult to position my audio exactly where I want it..normally I have voices in track one and then underlying effects or music on tracks two and three and so on.
Whenever I drop audio into timeline, say a music track on A3 and A4 I can't hear it..and have to phsyically drag it down to A7 and A8. I now have a situation where I need to have music under that track and when I drag audio to A9 and A10 I can't hear it at all.
I hope this is something simple and I'm almost certain that it will be.
Hope you can help me.
Carol Ann

I am officially a nugget.
I just deleted the other empty tracks to bring it up and it works fine.
Gosh hope no-one is replying to this.
Carol Ann

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Hi all.
This is actually kind of embarrasing, but here it goes:
I've made a rough cut of some source material with 4 audio channels, channels 1-2 with environment audio and track 3-4 with interview audio.
Me being stupid, I did not enable the second audio track on the timeline onto which the clips where going, hence I've got a timeline with only the environment audio, but no voice.
Is there an automated way to replace the tracks? Edit done in cs6.
Best regards, Norway.

I found the solution my self.
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I'm starting a project and need the ability to control the speed of an audio file playback using the timeline.
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Finishing a 13 min project, last few clips has audio separating into different time lines. Sort of like this:
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Thanks again for your time and trying to help. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough in beginning...it certainly was unintentional and I had no intention of wasting anyone's time.
Anyway, I also posted my dilmma on the LA Final Cut Pro User Group (http://www.lafcpug.org/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=97563&t=97561#reply_97563), and a guy came back with a response that pretty much explains the situation.
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Sure enough, some of my DV audio that originated from a older Canon XL1 had a bizarre sample rate of 48009.3 Hz. (Video caputred from the same camera also drifts out of synch if captured in blocks larger than 30 minutes. I'm guessing the problems are related.)
Here's a link to the guy's website with information on the issue and how to fix it:
http://www.rippletraining.com/engine/index.php?action=docs&doc=410
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Thanks again for trying to help me, and again, apologies for any unintentional obfuscation on my part.
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Bill

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This question has been asked before, but I'll reiterate it. If the support doesn't exist, hopefully apple dev will take it into consideration.
I shoot a lot of weddings and events. FCP's 5.0.x multiclip feature has been a lifesaver. I know the short answer to the following question is "get a mixer and do it in the field right the first time," which I'm working on. BUT, in the meanwhile...
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I know one solution is to bring the separate audio files in and synch them manually in the timeline. But here's hoping someone can suggest something a bit less time-consuming...
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Thanks for the reply.
Yes, the audio is set up with six total audio tracks (two per video feed). I'm viewing the clips with "Video & Audio" selected as you described.
I'm synching clips I've cleaned up in STP manually ... but that's not the issue.
Here's the issue:
Pre multiclip files:
V1 - A1, A2
V2 - A3, A4
V3 - A5, A6
--->convert to multiclip<---
Post multiclip files:
Viewer Window: V1, V2, V3 in multiclip config
Timeline Video: whichever angle I select
*Timeline Audio* - A1*, A2*
Going to item properties for the audio tracks shows that A1* is comprised of A1, A3, A5 and A2* is comprised of A2, A4, A6. All the original audio tracks are there in the new multclip audio, just mixed together.
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Message was edited by: Coyotegyrl

One example of an affected clip:
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Colin Brougham wrote:
... would like to know for the future how to resolve this issue.
If there is no way to get the 2nd audio track then i would consider that to be a bug that hopefully Adobe can fix in next patch.
Ideally when you import a vob fileset premiere should automatically drop all the audio tracks into the timeline, not just the first one.
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wow?? what a terrible, mean, and unnecessary negative response? "jerky naysayer" ?? never heard that term, but it sounds accurate.
Thats like walking up to someone and saying "i dont mean to be cruel, but your fat and ugly"
anyways, not sure what your point is, other than you have a crystal ball that tells you less than 1% of the premiere users in the world ever need to grab a b-roll from a dvd and i think i could find plenty of people who would disagree with you. I have been doing digital video editing for 20 years and been using premiere for about 15 years now i think since it first came out. I work at a tv station with lots of other video editors and we have all needed to pull a clips off dvd's many times in our lives. Im sorry that i dont have an XDCAM HD video tape of the first moon launch to capture, so for now i have to grab a clip from a dvd.
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maniac101maniac wrote:
However, when i test my links, instead of just changing the audio and returning to the menu (as per the instructions in the help files ), the film plays from the beginning.
The correct audio track is played, but that is not my intention at that point. I want the user to choose the audio track and then allow the user to press another play button or go to another menu and back again before the film starts.
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