sound in blackbird is represented by
individual audio tracks located under
the video tracks these audio tracks can
be mono as in a single track
or stereo represented by two tracks
and other track standards represented by
additional tracks the audio content on
the track is represented by luminance
values that equate to amplitude or
volume of the audio in this example of
my voice it's easy to see when i'm not
speaking as there is silence represented
by black when i do speak by grayscale
patterns full amplitude is represented
in white if audio is over modulated or
clipped it's represented in red a
software vu meter is also available on
both the source and edit side viewers it
can be toggled on and off by using the
letter u on the keyboard you can also be
bound to other keys on your keyboard in
our next tutorial i'll cover layouts for
best working efficiently with audio