User Guide

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ADOBE GOLIVE CS2

User Guide

Track information Displays information about the tracks. Show or hide track information by clicking the

Show/Hide Track Info button

. The columns display the following information:

• V Shows whether a track is visible or a sound or MIDI track is audible. Click the Eye icon to show or hide

visible tracks, or to turn muting or Mute on and off for audible tracks. In general, hidden tracks can affect the bound-

aries of a movie.

• L Shows whether a track is locked. Click the Lock icon to lock or unlock the track. When a track is locked, you

can’t change it, and “(locked)” appears next to the track name in the track content area.

• Type icon Shows track type. For example, the Video icon identifies a video track, and the Text icon

identifies a text track.

Track list area This list on the left side of the Time Editor displays the tracks in the movie. Each track bar is

identified by itsname(such as VideoTrack 1) or titleifyou enterone in theappropriateInspector.Todeleteatrack,

select it and choose Edit > Delete (Windows) or Edit > Clear (Mac OS). The relative position of tracks in the track

list determines the layering order of a movie.

Track content area This list on the right side of the Time Editor displays a bar (or keyframe for a sprite sample) that

represents the media on each track. The left edge of the bar marks the start time of the track, and the right edge marks

the end time. The keyframe marks the start time of the sprite sample.

Marker menu Lists the time markers you create and lets you move the time cursor directly to a point on the time

ruler. GoLive displays the frame at that time in the movie window. To create a new marker, position the pointer on

theMouse Time rowbelow thetimeruler.Whenthe pointerbecomes asmall triangle,place thetriangleatthe time

location where you want to create a new marker and then click. Type a name for the marker in the text box.

Time ruler Displays time intervals for the tracks in the track content area, depending on what you have selected in

the time scale slider at the bottom of the window.

Time scale slider Controls the time scale shown in the track content area. You can adjust the time scale to make it

easier to examine the timing relationships between the tracks in multiple-track movies. Drag the time scale slider to

the right to decrease the resolution of the time scale (up to a maximum of one minute) and compress the track bars.

Dragging thetimescale slider to theright allows youtosurveylargersectionsofthe movie. Drag thetimescale slider

to thelefttoincreasethe resolution of thetimescale (downtoaminimumofone frame) andlengthenthe trackbars.

Anychangesyou make with thetimescale slider aresaved betweensessions. Thedefault time scalesetting is 6frames

per second.

Time cursor Controls the location of the current frame (or time) in a movie that appears in the Preview tab. To

change the current frame, drag the time cursor left or right, or click on the time ruler. Before adding a new track,

position the time cursor at the time where you want the new track to begin.