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These animated bars serve as a visual reference you can use to help you adjust the volume of
different clips to create a pleasing balance, and to make sure you don’t exceed the maximum
desired level and introduce clipping. A speaker button at the top of the meters lets you mute or
unmute audio playback.
The Audio Meter
showing an audio signal
The Timeline
The word “timeline” refers both to an edited sequence of clips, which constitutes a program that
is stored in the Media Pool, and to the area of the Cut page interface where you can open this
sequence of clips to see its contents, and for playback and editing.
Timelines are created and stored in the Media Pool, along with all of your other clips. However,
each timeline is assembled and edited in what is sometimes referred to as the Timeline Editor.
Different pages of DaVinci Resolve show your timeline differently according to the special
requirements of each page focusing variously on different methods of editing, grading,
compositing, and audio. However, while the interface of the Timeline Editor changes from page
to page, the actual contents of the Timeline are identical, because each page’s Timeline Editor
is in fact showing the exact same Timeline that is currently open. This means that the advanced
user can use every page of DaVinci to do different things to the same Timeline, with only the
interface changing to make different functions possible in different pages.
For the Cut page user, the Timeline is divided into an Upper Timeline at the top, and a larger
and more detailed Timeline Editor showing a zoomed in portion of the Timeline around the
playhead at the bottom. Working together, these two views of your edited sequence make it
possible to navigate your entire project and cut in great detail.
The Timeline of the Cut page, comprising the Upper Timeline and the zoomed in Timeline
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