User guide

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The Timeline
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In detail the clips in the video track(s) can be set to the following ap-
pearances:
6.2.3 Configuring the Timeline Scale
The timeline scale can be adapted to the needs of your project. You can
either set a special offset or switch the notation of the scale.
Figure 6-9: The timeline scale
To set a timeline offset, for example, to match the current project with
other projects, you have to use the TC - Offset item of the output set-
tings window (see section “How to Configure the Video Output” on
page 6-12). The timeline of the Edit Tool will then provide this offset.
Additionally, the timeline scale as well as all position and length indica-
tors in the Edit Tool can be switched from a display of the timecode no-
tation to frame numbers and vice versa. Further information about this
can be found in section “About Timecode / Frame Number Fields” on
page 2-17.
Selection Meaning
No thumbnails The clips’ representations in the video track(s)
of the timeline are shown without thumbnails.
At start/end Thumbnails of the clips are displayed at the
start and the end of the clips only (e.g. as
shown in figure 6-55 on page 6-60).
Continuously All clips in the video track(s) are filled with
thumbnails continuously (as shown in the ex-
ample figure above).
File names Instead of seeing the thumbnails continuously,
the clips are filled with their file names instead,
i.e. you will see the original file names of the re-
spective image files throughout the clip which
may be especially helpful during frame-accu-
rate editing.
timeline scale