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CLIPSTER Edit Tool User Guide
6.4 Working with the Timeline in General
After adding clips to the timeline (see section “Adding Clips to the
Timeline” on page 6-2), you can begin your editing work by, for exam-
ple, altering the sequence of clips, cutting clips or defining transitions.
Performing editing work on clips in the timeline of the Edit Tool is very
easy because most editing functions are immediately at hand where
they are needed most. For example, the transition properties can be ac-
cessed directly from its visible part in a video track.
You can use the video overlay of the Edit Tool to monitor and check the
progress of your work. Most of the time the editing work and its output
effect can be seen in the video overlay instantly. For example, clips of
different sizes in the video track(s) of the timeline may be cropped,
stretched or compressed, or scaled according to your settings for the re-
spective clips and your output settings. All these effects can be viewed
instantaneously via the video overlay of the control area.
This section describes how to work with the timeline of the Edit Tool in
general.
6.4.1 Moving Clips within the Timeline
To arrange the clips in the desired sequence on the timeline as they
should be played out in the end, you may have to move clips within the
timeline which is very easy with the Edit Tool. Simply select a clip and
drag it with the mouse to the desired position on the timeline.
To view your work on an additionally connected monitor, you
have to configure the output format of the timeline according-
ly (see section “How to Configure the Video Output” on
page 6-12).
The DVS software uses only representations of the original ma-
terial on the storage for the clips in the bin and the timeline. All
editing tasks are performed virtually and at all times your orig-
inal material will never be altered.
Although the following is shown with video clips, the same ap-
plies to audio clips as well.