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Editable Time Warps—Clips can b e
interac tively time warped, given that they have had
atimewarpapplied.Wheninthismode,youcan
place seams in a clip and then drag them within
the clip’s original length. See Adding Time Warps
(page 2–620).
Dra ggabl e Track s—Enables vertical
movement of tr acks with clips. Holding down the
Shi f t key while moving a track creates a clone of
the or iginal track.
Lock Tr a ns it i ons —When Lock Transitions
is turned off (the default), moving a clip or
changing its leng th on a transition track affect the
lengths of transitions around the clip. When Lock
Transitions is turned on, transition lengths do not
change when you move a clip or drag clip edges
not touching the transition. You can still change
atransition’slengthbydraggingtheedgesofthe
transition itself.
Set R ange—Matches the active segment’s
start and end times to the extents of the mix.
Pan—Pans the Motion Mixer display
horizontally and ver tically.
Zoom E xten ts —Stretches or shrinks the mix
tofitinthecurrentMotionMixerdisplay.
Zoom—Allows horizontal stretching and
shrinking of the d isplay of the mix.
Zoom R egion—Zoom into a portion of a track
by dragging a region select ion around that part
of a track.
Snap Frames—An on/off toggle t hat sets the
Motion Mixer to snap all adjustments to single
frames.
Snap Clips—An on/off toggle that c auses clips
residing on the same track to snap together. The
end frame of one clip will match the start frame of
the next clip. If the first clip ends at frame 100, the
start frame of the next clip will snap to frame 100.
When Snap Clips is on, transition edges snap to
clip edges when dr agged.
Prefer ences—Opens the Mixer Preferences
dialog (page 2–651), w here you can change display
settings for clips, transitions, a nd frames.
Reservoir—Opens the Reservoir dialog (page
2–649).
Horizontal—This button is available when the
Weighting button on the motion mixer toolbar or
on a trackgroup is active. I t locks all mov ement of
weight nodes to the horizontal.
Vertical—This button is available when the
Weighting button on the motion mixer toolbar or
on a trackgroup is active. I t locks all mov ement of
weight nodes to the vertical.
Horizontal Vertical—This button is available
when the Weighting button on the motion m ixer
toolbaroronatrackgroupisactive. Itallows
free horizontal and vert ical movements of weig ht
nodes.
Weigh t Mode—An on/off toggle that allows you
to work with weight curves. Weight curves are
useful for ma king smo oth blends between tracks.
TheWeightModebuttonontheMotionMixer
toolbar acts as a global switch that toggles the
WeightModebuttonsoneverytrackintheMixer.
TheWeightModebuttonattherightendofeach
track toggles weighting only for that track. For
more information on how weight curves work, see
Motion Mixer Editor (page 2–646).Tofindouthow
to u se weight curves, see Adjusting Track Weight
(page 2–619).