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Time Stretch: If you select a range of keyframes, you can turn on the Time Stretch
tool to show a box you can use to squeeze and stretch the entire range of keyframes
relative to one another, to change the overall timing of a sequence of keyframes
without losing the relative timing from one keyframe to the next. Alternatively, you
can turn on Time Stretch and draw a bounding box around the keyframes you want to
adjust to create a time-stretching boundary that way. Click Time Stretch a second time
to turn it off.
Shape Box: Turn on the Shape Box to draw a bounding box around a group of control
points you want to adjust in order to horizontally squish and stretch (using the top/
bottom/left/right handles), corner pin (using the corner handles), move (dragging on the
box boundary), or corner stretch (Command-drag the corner handles).
Show Key Markers: Turning on this control shows keyframes in the top ruler that
correspond to the frame at which each visible control point appears. The colors of
these keyframes correspond to the color of the control points they’re indicating.
Thumbnail Timeline in the Fusion Page
In the Fusion page of DaVinci Resolve, the Thumbnail timeline (hidden by default) can be
opened by clicking the Clips button in the UI toolbar and appears underneath the Node Editor
when it’s open. The Thumbnail timeline shows every clip in the current Timeline, giving you a
way to navigate from one clip to another. Each thumbnail has a pop-up menu for creating and
switching among multiple versions of compositions, and resetting the current composition,
when necessary.
The Thumbnail timeline lets you navigate the Timeline and manage versions of compositions.
Right-clicking on any thumbnail exposes a contextual menu.
The contextual menu for the Thumbnail timeline.
To open another clip:
Click any thumbnail to jump to that clip’s composition. The current clip is
outlined in orange.
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