User Manual

Audio Meter
An audio meter to the right of the Viewer shows you a graphical representation of the audio
levels playing in the current clip or in the Timeline as you play through the Viewer, via animated
vertical bars that are tinted to indicate how loud the levels are.
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.
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
A pair of buttons at the upper left-hand corner of the Timeline lets you choose whether you use
a locked or free playhead.
Two buttons let you choose to use a locked or free playhead
The Timeline is divided into multiple tracks, with each track capable of holding a sequence of
clips in order to create a program. The main tracks, which are labeled numerically, combine a
clip’s video and audio into a single item in the Timeline, for simplicity. Editing the In or Out point
of a clip edits the video and audio together.
Track 1 shows combined Video+Audio tracks in the Cut page Timeline
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