Multicam editing question

When editing in multi-cam mode, how can I select which audio tracks I want to appear in the timeline? If I shoot with 3 cameras, can I have all the audio tracks from all the cameras appear in the timeline... And then turn off the ones I don’t want to hear?

#3) There's no automatic way to do it. What I do is after I've added the main multiclip to the timeline, before I adjust the start of the clip, I drag the individual clips into the timeline (same in points) onto separate audio tracks. Then I unlink the video tracks and delete the individual video tracks. Now you have your multiclip video on track 1, multiclip audio on 1 and 2, and each individual audio clips on 3/4, 5/6, etc. You can even unlink the audio from your multiclip video and delete it, leaving just the individual audio tracks.
(This was cut and pasted from a previous post of mine. In other words, a basic search would have found this answer.)

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