Operation Manual

Chapter 6: Two-track editing with Studio Plus 121
Displaying and hiding the overlay track
As we have just seen, the overlay video and audio
tracks are displayed when you add your first overlay
clip. Similarly, when you remove the last clip from
these tracks, Studio again hides them from view.
This default behavior help keep the Movie Window
uncluttered, but if you are making frequent use of
overlay video, you might prefer to have the track
visible at all times. This can be achieved by activating
the Always show overlay track command on the pop-up
“context” menu that appears when you click on the
Movie Window with your right mouse button.
A/B editing
The second video track in Studio Plus often simplifies
the editing tasks – insert edits, L-cuts and J-cuts –
discussed under “Advanced Timeline editing” on page
87.
An insert edit, for instance, becomes a trivial operation:
simply drag the clip to be inserted onto the overlay
track, and trim it as desired. (See “The Picture-in-
picture tool” below if you want the second video to
appear at reduced size so that only part of the main
video is obscured.)