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To delete a track from the Timeline: Right-click within a track’s Timeline header
and choose Delete Track. If there are clips on a track you remove, they are deleted
from the Timeline.
To delete all unused tracks in the Timeline: Right-click anywhere in the track header
area and choose Delete Empty Tracks. All tracks without clips will be deleted at once.
To move tracks and the clips on them up and down: Right-click within a track’s
Timeline header and choose Move Track Up or Move Track Down from the contextual
menu. That track, along with all clips on it, will be moved up or down relative to the
other tracks in the Timeline.
Naming Timeline Tracks
If you’re a stickler for organization, you can also name the tracks on a timeline to identify
its purpose.
To rename a track:
1 Make sure the Timeline View Options are set to either the Filmstrip view or the
Thumbnail view, and that audio tracks are tall enough, so that track names are visible.
2 To edit the name of any track, click the default “Video X” or “Audio X” track name to
select it, then type your preferred name and press the Return key.
Using Timeline Snapping and Zooming
When preparing to make an edit into the Timeline, you can set the snapping and zoom controls
to whichever state is most useful for the operation you need to perform. For example, if you’re
editing an insert shot into a rapid-fire section of edits in the Timeline, you may want to zoom in
to better see the exact place where you want to place the incoming clip. Since there are many
edits at that point, disabling snapping might make it useful to avoid having the clip jump to the
nearest edit point if you need to move the incoming clip to a very specific frame.
Playhead Snapping:
To turn clip and playhead snapping on and off: Click the Snapping button in the toolbar,
or press N. When snapping is turned on, the In and Out points and markers of clips
all snap to one another and to the playhead. You can also press N to temporarily turn
snapping on or off while dragging a clip in the Timeline, or while scrubbing the playhead
using the pointer (snapping reverts to its previous state when you finish the operation).
The Snapping button in the toolbar
Timeline Zoom Presets:
Full Extent Zoom: This mode dynamically adjusts the zoom level to encompass the
whole Timeline as you add or remove clips. As your timeline grows by adding clips,
the zoom level decreases automatically to fit the new clips into your Timeline Viewer.
Conversely, the zoom level will increase automatically as you remove clips.
Detail Zoom: This setting zooms the Timeline in on the Playhead to the frame level to
quickly make fine timing adjustments.
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