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Creating and Modifying Timelines
After you’ve imported and organized the media you need to use in a program, the next thing
you must do is create a timeline. Timelines are the organizational entities that contain the edited
sequences of clips that make up your program. You can have as many timelines as you like in
your project, with each timeline being an independent arrangement of clips. Timelines are
stored in the Media Pool and can be organized using bins, just like clips.
Creating New Timelines
A timeline is automatically created when you edit your first clip into the Timeline. You’ll see an
icon for the new timeline in the Media Pool, where you can rename it.
You can also create a new timeline by either choosing File > New Timeline (Command-N), or
right-clicking in the background of the Media Pool and choosing Create New Timeline. A dialog
appears that lets you choose a start timecode (the default is 01:00:00:00), a name, how many
video and audio tracks you want it to have, what kind of audio (the default is stereo), and
whether or not you want to create an empty timeline, or a timeline that automatically includes all
clips in the Media Pool with or without selected In/Out points (a quick and easy way of creating
a stringout of all clips you’ve imported).
By default, all timelines share the same frame rate, resolution, and monitoring settings as the
overall project. If you like, you can also click the Use Custom Settings button to choose
individual frame rate, resolution, and monitoring settings for that timeline.
Once you’ve created a new timeline, double-clicking it will open it into the Timeline Editor.
Opening Timelines
If you only have one timeline in your project, that timeline is always seen in the Timeline Editor.
If you have multiple timelines, you can double-click any timeline in the Media Pool to open it
into the Timeline Editor, ready for editing.
About Tracks in the Cut Page Timeline
Tracks in the Cut page timeline combine a clip’s audio and video into a single track for
convenience, as this makes it easy to keep audio and video organized and in sync when
superimposing many clips together. This means that tracks have both video and audio enable
controls in the track header controls, so that you can selectively disable video and mute audio
when necessary.
The Lock, Audio Enable, and Video Enable buttons to the
left of the track number, in the header of a timeline track
Each track also has a lock control, which lets you prevent clips on that track from being altered
in any way.
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