User guide

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CLIPSTER Edit Tool User Guide
align itself to these elements, in our example here to the beginning of
the timeline. This behavior is called the snapping mode of the Edit Tool.
While the starting point of the clip (its position and inpoint) within the
timeline is set during the drag-and-drop procedure by the position of
the mouse pointer, its outpoint is usually defined by the length of the
clip. However, all these attributes can be changed easily after clips were
added to the timeline, their position within the timeline as well as their
in- and outpoints.
y Now add the second clip of the bin to the timeline (clip B).
If clip B is dropped in the middle of clip A in the video track, clip A will
be divided and the rest of it will move to the end of the timeline.
For the rest of this tutorial we suppose that this has happened and that
clip A is divided into two by inserting clip B in the middle of it.
The snapping mode is a very useful feature if you want to po-
sition clips in the timeline. It reacts not only to the starting point
of the timeline but also to the in- and outpoint of clips, the po-
sition of the timeline cursor or the set in- and outpoint of the
timeline. You can disable the snapping mode and activate a
fine tuning mode by pressing the [Shift] key.
If the clip is released somewhere in the video track, a gap (part
of the timeline without contents) may appear in the timeline. A
gap is indicated by a red line in the timeline scale. If this occurs,
you can move the clip easily to the beginning of the timeline
with a double-click of the mouse on the timeline scale (see sec-
tion “Moving Clips in the Timeline” on page 3-10).
This behavior can be changed via the button INSERT. This but-
ton switches between the insert and the overwrite mode of the
Edit Tool. In the overwrite mode the rest of the clip (or at least
the contents of clip A with the length of clip B) would be over-
written.
Audio clips can be dragged from the bin to the audio tracks of
the timeline area. If the audio clips incorporate more than one
mono or stereo channel, the additional channels will be added
to the other audio tracks below the selected one.
If you drag a clip from the bin to the control area of the Edit
Tool, the software switches to the source-edit mode where you
can select the in- and outpoint of the clip frame accurately be-
fore adding it to the timeline. Once everything is set, you can
drag the clip from its video overlay in the control area to the
video track of the timeline.