Visual QuickStart Guide [Electronic resources] : Final Cut Express HD for Mac OS X نسخه متنی

Figure 10.24. An overview of the Timeline.

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Figure 10.25. Sequence controls and displays in the Timeline.

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Figure 10.26. Display and Track controls in the Timeline.

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Figure 10.27. Timeline clip marking controls.

Chapter 18, "Real Time and Rendering."

Timeline track controls (Figure 10.26)

• Track Visibility control: Click to make a track invisible. When the track is invisible, the contents remain in the Timeline but are not played or rendered with the sequence. Invisible tracks appear dimmed in the Timeline. Caution: Video render files can be lost if the track is made invisible.

• Lock Track control: Lock a track to prevent any changes to its contents. Locked tracks are crosshatched in the Timeline.

• Auto Select control: Use sequence In and Out points to define a selected area; then disable any tracks you want to exclude from your selection. You can cut, copy, search, delete, or ripple delete an auto-selected area. You can also apply copies of a filter to all the clips in an auto-selected area in a single operation.

• Source and Destination controls for targeting tracks: Set the Source control to specify which source track is assigned to a destination track and whether the track is enabled to receive a source clip. The Destination control identifies the track. You can target one video target track plus one audio target track for each audio track in the source clip.

• Audio Solo button: Click to mute playback of any other audio tracks, except those tracks where Solo is enabled.

• Audio Mute button: Click to mute a track's audio playback.

• Adjustable track height: Drag the lower border of any individual track to adjust its height.

Timeline display controls (Figure 10.26)

• Audio Controls button: Click to toggle the display of Mute and Solo buttons. Controls are hidden by default.

• Clip Overlays control: Click to toggle the display of Audio Level line graphs over audio clips and Opacity Level line graphs in video clips.

• Track Height control: Click to switch among the four track display sizes in the Timeline.

• Track Layout menu control: Click the triangle to display a pop-up menu containing Timeline display options and to access saved custom track layouts.

Timeline scaling and scrolling controls (Figure 10.26)

• Center Zoom control: Click to jump between different time scale views.

• Zoom slider: Use this slider to scroll through your sequence and to adjust the time scale of your view.

• Vertical scroll bars: This two-part scroll bar allows the video and audio tracks to scroll independently. Adjust the thumb tabs between the scroll controls to create a static area in the center of the Timeline.

Chapter 13, "Creating Transitions."

Color coding in the Timeline

Final Cut Express uses a color-coding system to identify the various clip and sequence types found in the Timeline.