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GETTING STARTED CHP. 2
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.
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.
• +wheel scrolls horizontally (through time).
• +wheel scrolls vertically.
• + +wheel moves the cursor in small increments.
• + + +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.
Scroll box
Zoom
tools
Shift
Ctrl
Ctrl Shift
Ctrl Shift
Alt