User guide

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CLIPSTER Edit Tool User Guide
y Add another, different clip to the bin by performing the drag-and-
drop procedure again.
The new clip is added to the clip list of the bin as well. Now two clips
are available in the Edit Tool and you can start working with them. With
the scrub bar below the thumbnails (visible when a clip is selected) you
can preview the material and roughly select an inpoint for the respec-
tive clip. However, for our demonstration here we will leave the clips’
inpoints as they are.
3.2.2 Adding Clips to the Timeline
For the editing process the Edit Tool uses a timeline with several video
and audio tracks where you can add the clips in the desired sequence
as they should be played out in the end. You can then, for instance, de-
fine wipes, dissolves or cuts for the material. There is no need to worry
about your original material being in different resolutions, bit depths,
When audio should be used in your project, you have to drag
(add) audio clips to the bin as well.
If you select another file than the first frame file in a video di-
rectory, the scrub bar cursor of the thumbnail (the clip’s in-
point) will be set accordingly.
You may select more than one video directory in the file man-
ager and drag them to the contents area of the bin. The respec-
tive clips will all be added to the bin.
You can also add clips to the bin by using the menu option Add
Clip on the context menu of the contents area or the menu
Project » Add clips….
Via the context menu of a clip in the bin (either audio or video)
you can call up the clip’s properties. Most of these can only be
altered if the clip is not already present in the timeline.
When adding clips to the bin with a procedure other than a
record, some properties may not be discerned properly due to
missing file header information. Then they will either be de-
duced from the file format, color space, etc. of the clip, or
configured to the currently set timeline output settings. If the
properties of the clip do not match the material on the stor-
age, you have to change them accordingly (see section
“Changing the Properties of Clips” on page 4-21).