User Manual

Toolbar
The Toolbar has buttons that let you choose modes of functionality and other buttons that let
you execute commands such as placing markers and flags.
Buttons in the Fairlight Page toolbar
 Normal Edit mode: The default mode in which you can move and resize clips in the
Timeline, roll edits, and do other basic editing tasks. While this mode can be used
with the pointer, it’s designed for letting you make automatic selections of clips at the
position of the playhead in selected tracks, using keyboard shortcuts or the Fairlight
Editing console.
 Region Selection mode: An editing mode in which you can select partial regions of
one or more clips for partial editing. While this mode can be used with the pointer, it’s
designed for letting you make automatic selections using In and Out points to define
regions of selected tracks, using keyboard shortcuts or the Fairlight Editing console.
 Edit Selection mode: An editing mode that’s optimized for pointer-based editing in the
GUI. Multiple selection and editing functions may be accessed by clicking or dragging
on different regions of audio clips in the Timeline. Additionally, an important aspect
of working in Edit Selection mode is that this is the only mode that lets you edit the
Timeline during playback, which you can’t do in Selection and Range modes.
 Add Cut: Click to add a cut to every clip on an unlocked track that intersects the
position of the playhead.
 Snapping: Enables or disables clip snapping. When turned on, clip In and Out points,
markers, and the playhead all snap to one another for reference while you’re editing.
A drop-down menu lets you choose how to use snapping to quantize clip position, to
Bars, Beats, Divisions, Tics, or via Smart snapping.
 Flag Clip/Flag Colors drop-down menu: Flags identify clips, and indicate all clips that
correspond to the same item of media in the Media Pool. Clips can have multiple flags.
Clicking the Flag button automatically adds a flag to whichever clip is currently selected
in the Timeline. A drop-down menu to the right lets you choose differently colored
flags, and clear all flags from the currently selected clip.
 Add Marker/Marker Colors drop-down menu: Markers identify specific frames
of individual clips. Clicking the Add Marker button adds a marker of the currently
displayed color to the clip at the position of the playhead in the Timeline. A drop-down
menu to the right lets you choose differently colored markers, and clear all markers
from the currently selected clip.
 Timeline View Options drop-down menu: Contains a variety of controls with which to
customize the display of clips in the Timeline:
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Timeline View Options: The left button lets you display or hide the video tracks
in the current timeline, for use as a reference while you work. The right button lets
you set the playhead to be fixed, so that during playback the tracks scroll past the
playhead as it remains in place, which is useful when working with the Fairlight
control surface.
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Scroller: Three buttons let you turn on one video and two audio scrollers, which
act as scroll bars and zoomed-in visual references for the video and audio media
immediately surrounding the playhead.
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