Customizing the Timeline
As with the rest of Liquid Edition, the Timeline is highly customizable, which allows you to set up the Timeline tracks to suit your own particular workflow. You can rename tracks to create more logical aliases than those assigned at start up and during the edit process. You may also find it useful to change the height of tracks, particularly when you're working with audio files, because doing so allows you to see the wave form a little better. You may also want to reduce the height of each track in order to fit more tracks onto the screen.
To rename tracks
- Figure 1.63 ). A small outline box appears around the name into which you can type up to 31 characters (Figure 1.64 ).
Figure 1.63. Selecting Rename to rename a track. It's that easy.

Figure 1.64. Up to 31 characters can now be entered.

- Clicking the New Sequence button
in the top right corner of the interface will reset the names and heights back to their default values.
To change track heights
Do one of the following:
- Figure 1.65 ).
- Right-click the track and select Track Height from the pop-up menu (Figure 1.66 ). Then choose the height of your choice.
Figure 1.66. … or right-click and use one of the preset values.
Figure 1.65. Drag a track to make it bigger…

To save a Timeline template
1. | Click the Sequence Menu icon ![]() |
2. | Select Save Timeline As Template from the drop-down menu (Figure 1.67 ).Figure 1.67. The Sequence Menu options.![]() |
3. | Browse to a folder where you want to keep this and give it a unique name before you save (Figure 1.68 ).Figure 1.68. Save your Timeline template with a unique name.![]() |
- Saving a Timeline template only saves those options that are available when you click the drop-down menu called Timeline, found at the top of the interface.
TemplatesWhat Are They Good For?Liquid Edition has three different templates (four if you include the keyboard mapping), which can be somewhat confusing for the beginner. To help smooth away this worry, I've condensed the three main templates, their function, and where they can be accessed into this easy-to-read sidebar.
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