User Manual

Close Up
Lets you edit a clip into the Timeline as a zoomed-in close up to make up for a lack of actual
close ups that would have been shot with either longer lenses or by moving the camera closer
to the subject. This function is particularly useful when you’re working with 4K media in a
1080 timeline, or 8K media in a 4K timeline, which enables you zoom into existing wide shots to
create medium shots, or medium shots to create close up shots, with no loss of quality.
Performing this edit adds the incoming clip as an approximate 150% scaled close up, and if a
face or faces are found, automatically re-positions the face in the frame. Which frame of the
Timeline the incoming clip aligns with depends on the following:
 If no In or Out points are set on the timeline, the incoming clip aligns with the Timeline
playhead as the In point.
 The incoming clip aligns with a timeline In point if one has been set.
 The incoming clip’s Out point will align with a timeline Out point if one has been set
without an In point. This “backtimes” the clip.
(Top) Before a Close Up edit, (Bottom) After editing clip DD
into the Timeline with a Close Up edit Place on Top
Place On Top
Lets you edit the incoming clip as a superimposition above whatever other clips are in the
Timeline; the incoming clip is always placed on top, so if there are clips in Tracks 1, 2, and 3, the
incoming clip is automatically placed on Track 4, regardless of which track is selected. The
frame the incoming clip aligns with depends on the following:
 The incoming clip aligns to the playhead if no timeline In or Out points
have been defined.
 The incoming clip aligns with a timeline In point if one has been set.
 The incoming clip’s Out point will align with a timeline Out point if one has been set
without an In point. This “backtimes” the clip.
(Top) Before placing a clip on top, (Bottom) After editing
clip DD into the Timeline with a Place on Top edit
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