User guide

Matrox Rainbow Runner G-Series – User Guide 31
The main areas of the Video Editor window are the tracks. Tracks are where you place clips.
Separate tracks make it easier to organize and manipulate clips. Track lengths, as measured by the
ruler, represent time and all tracks use the same timeline. Clips can be video, audio or images.
Adding a video, audio or image clip
1 Click the type of file you want to insert:
Insert Video File – to put AVI, MOV, FLC, FLI and FLX video files in your video project.
With this button, you can insert AVI video files you captured with PC-VCR Remote (see
“Step 1 – Getting files for clips”).
Insert Audio File – to put WAV sound files or the audio portion of AVI or MOV video files
in your video project.
Insert Image File – to put BMP, EPS, JPG, PCD, PCT, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, TGA, TIF or
WMF picture files in your video project.
2 Using the resulting dialog box, select a file.
3 After choosing a file, click a track to place the clip.
If a video file includes sound, clips are synchronously placed on both the video and audio
tracks. You can use just the audio portion of a video file by placing its video clip on an audio
track.
Adding a title, color or silence clip
1 Click the type of clip you want to insert:
Insert Title Clip – to put text in your video project.
Insert Color Clip – for solid color fills (as a background, for example).
Insert Silence Clip – to mute part of your audio track.
2 Use the resulting dialog box to adjust the settings, then click OK.
3 Click a track to place the clip (see “Placing clips”).
Placing clips
If the mouse pointer appears as a circle with a slash through it, you can’t
place the clip at that location. When placing a clip, black means the entire clip will fit on
the current location on the track, red means the clip will be trimmed at the end to fit. After
a clip is placed, you can move it within a track or to a different track by dragging it.