User Guide

14 Studio 8
Storyboard view: Storyboard view shows the order of
video scenes and transitions. It uses thumbnail icons for
quickly structuring a movie. You can choose large or
small thumbnails in the Edit options panel.
Timeline view: Timeline View shows the position and
duration of clips relative to the Timescale. This view
also displays the five tracks on which you can place
various types of clip: video, original (or “synchronous”)
audio , title overlays and graphics, sound effects and
voice-overs, and background music. A sixth track, for
menus, chapter marks and
other return-to-menu links,
appears above the Video track
whenever the movie has at
least one menu.
The Video track normally
takes precedence over all other
tracks when trimming or
deleting. This arrangement can
be bypassed when necessary
with a feature that allows you to “lock” any track
independently of the others, excluding it from editing
and playback operations.
As your cursor passes over the track icons at the left
edge of the Movie Window, each displays as a button
that can be clicked to toggle locking for that track.
Track-locking gives Studio insert-edit and split-edit
capability (see Chapter 4: Video Clips).