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Working with tracks

A project consists of multiple audio and video tracks. The track view is the timeline in which all events appear. The track list provides information about the track and contains controls that affect all events in the track.

Using the track view

Numerous options are provided for viewing and navigating in track view.

Scrolling and zooming

There are several ways to scroll and zoom in the track view.

Click the scroll bar arrows or drag the scroll bars to move up and down the tracks or to move forward and back along the timeline.

Click the Zoom buttons () to reveal more or less of the timeline.

Drag the edge of the scroll box, found on the scroll bar, to zoom.

Press and to zoom in and out along the timeline.

Click the Zoom Edit Tool ( ) button or, from the Edit menu, choose

Editing Tool and then choose Zoom. In this mode, drag on the timeline to draw a rectangle that defines the zoom region.

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Tip: You can also access the Zoom Edit Tool from the lower- right corner of the track view ().

Mouse wheel control is also supported. The default behavior of the wheel is to zoom horizontally.

Shift +wheel scrolls horizontally (through time).

Ctrl +wheel scrolls vertically.

Ctrl + Shift +wheel moves the cursor in small increments.

Ctrl + Shift + Alt +wheel moves the cursor in one-frame increments.

Clicking the mouse wheel turns auto-panning on and off.

Zooming directly controls the accuracy of your editing. Each video event has thumbnail representations of the frames within the event. Depending on how far you have zoomed in on a video event, a thumbnail can represent the entire event or a single frame in the event.

Tip: You can choose to display frame numbers, time, or timecode on video event thumbnails. For more information, see Displaying frame numbers on page 329.

GETTING STARTED

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