Operation Manual

Chapter 4: The Movie Window 65
Because many editing operations can be carried out
only in Timeline view, you should choose it whenever
extensive, detailed or advanced editing is required.
Track locking
The video track normally takes precedence over all
other tracks for trimming or deleting. This has several
consequences:
• When you trim a video clip, clips running
simultaneously on other tracks are also trimmed.
• When you delete a video clip, the time segment it
used is also removed from any parallel clips.
• Clips that fall entirely within a deleted video clip’s
span are also deleted.
These behaviors can be bypassed when necessary with
a feature that allows you to “lock” any track indepen-
dently of the others, thereby excluding it from editing
and playback operations.
The padlock buttons along
the right edge of the Movie
Window, can be clicked to
toggle locking for the
corresponding track. Track-
locking gives Studio insert-
edit and split-edit capability
(see Chapter 5: Video clips).