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CLIPSTER Edit Tool User Guide
Figure 6-31: Timeline sliders
With the left slider you can zoom in or out of the timeline (keyboard
shortcuts [Up Arrow] and [Down Arrow]). If the slider is set to the left-
most point, you are able to see the whole contents of the timeline.
When it is set more to the right, you will zoom into the timeline.
When you have zoomed into the timeline, you can change the viewing
position of the timeline with the right slider. You can go to the end of
the timeline by pulling this slider to the right, and to the beginning of
the timeline by pulling it to the left.
The cursor of the timeline provides a special feature when zoomed far
into the timeline: Then it provides a frame-end marker which indicates
where this particular image ends in the timeline.
Figure 6-32: Timeline cursor when zoomed into the timeline
As you can see in the figure above the frame selected with the cursor is
the 8th frame of the 12th second and it ends where the 9th frame
starts. The frame-end marker is very useful when you want to perform
frame accurate cuts or other edit works.
Moving via the Scrub Bar of the Control Area
In contrast to the timeline of the timeline area the scrub bar of the con-
trol area always shows the complete timeline of the loaded project. It
can also be used to move within your project:
Via the Configuration Tool (see “CLIPSTER Configurations”
user guide) you can set the way the Edit Tool performs a zoom-
ing on the timeline. There you can set whether the zooming
should occur on the position of the timeline cursor or on the
current viewing position of the timeline.
line of timeline cursor frame-end marker