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Table Of Contents
- Site Settings
- Index Site Settings
- Avid Liquid Reference Manual
- Contents
- Introduction
- Documentation
- Basics
- Signup
- High Definition
- Input
- Logging and Digitizing (Capture)
- EZ Capture
- Starting EZ Capture
- Basics
- The Logging Tool and Its Functions
- Video Inlay, Timecode Fields and Status Field
- Player Source (D)
- Reels and Racks (E, F)
- Controls (Player and Edit Buttons, G)
- A/V Inputs (Selecting Source Tracks, H)
- Stereo or Mono (I)
- 4:3 or 16:9 (I)
- Selecting a Media Format/Codec Preset (J)
- Destination Volumes for Digitizing / Capture Volumes (K)
- Select Audio Monitor /Mute
- Video Tool / Calibration Control /IPB Settings
- Clip Tab: Naming and Numbering Clips
- Color Correction Tab
- Audio Tab
- Master Tab
- Media Tab
- Send Clips To Timeline (Direct Insert)
- Properties
- Methods
- File Ingest
- Background Live Capture
- Importing Objects
- Copying/Pasting Objects from Other Projects
- Media Management and Object Import
- Creating Objects
- Voice-Over
- Importing EDL/AVID MediaLog Files
- Exchange
- Administration
- The Project
- The Object
- Media Management
- Edit
- Video Editing
- Audio in the Timeline
- Special Functions
- Finish
- Effects in Avid Liquid: The Basics
- Detailed Description of Classic Effect Editors
- Realtime FX
- AFX PlugIns
- Special FX
- Timewarps and Color Correction
- Color Correction Editor
- Linear Timewarp
- Timewarp Editor
- Audio
- Audio Postproduction and Audio Effects
- Basics
- ASIO Driver and DirectSound
- 32-bit Floating Point Audio
- Special Characteristics of Audio Clips
- Inserting Audio Clips on the Timeline
- Assigning Tracks
- Stereo and Mono, Panorama and Balance
- Muting Timeline Tracks (Audio Playback)
- Audio Scrubbing - Digital or Analog
- Working with more than 16 Audio Source Tracks (Real- Time Playback)
- Audio Tool
- Audio Editor
- Special Functions
- SmartSound: Background Music Made to Measure
- Audio Effects
- Avid Liquid Plugin Audio Effects (VST)
- Basics
- Audio Postproduction and Audio Effects
- Titler
- DVD Authoring
- Export
- Customize Avid Liquid
- Glossary
- Index
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Chapter 9 Edit
Timeline Layout
As the basic tool for non-linear editing, the Timeline not only allows you to gain an overview of your
editing work, it also provides flexible and powerful functions.
There is no set assignment of clips to Tra c k s - all video and audio clips, graphics, title clips and transition
effects can be positioned anywhere on any Timeline Tr a c k .
Any changes made to the Timeline have a direct effect on the Sequence, can be played immediately and
are continuously saved (except for effects that have to be rendered).
Timeline window
Timeline Display
Click the View Switcher on the taskbar to toggle between different Timeline views
(see “Desktop Views” on page 46).
Timeline Elements
This section describes the most important components of the Timeline:
“Empty” Timeline
An “empty” Timeline or positions on the Timeline at which no object (video clip, audio clip, title, etc.) is
located on a Tra c k , indicate the following:
@ System’s video output: black (Video Black)
@ System’s audio output: mute
In other words: You do not have to insert a particular object to generate a result of “black” or “mute” at
the particular output. For example, a fade-out is generated by a dissolve in an “empty” Timeline position.
SlicesTrack header area
Tracks
PlaylineZoom controller
Timecode bar
Timecode display Scroll bars
Clips
Toolbar