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Customizing Timeline Views
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Displaying Clip Colors in the Timeline
You can use colors to highlight the following types of clips in the Timeline:
• Clips that have offline media.
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When you work with nested layers, a clip that contains offline media appears colored even if the
missing media is located in a nested layer.
• Clips whose frame rate does not match the sequence frame rate (mixed-rate clips).
• Clips that do not match the video resolution type of the project — for example, HD clips in
an SD project, or SD clips in an HD project.
• Clips to which you assign a local color in the Timeline.
• Clips to which you assign a color in the bin.
When working in a MultiRez environment, you can also use colors to track available resolutions.
You can control which types of clip coloring to enable, and customize the colors themselves.
Clip color options are saved when you save a customized Timeline View, so you can set up
several coloring schemes and then switch between them. For more information, see “Managing
Customized Timeline Views” on page 647.
Displaying clip colors overrides any track color you assign from the Timeline Fast menu.
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For HD and SD projects, DVCPRO HD clips are colored light red. You cannot customize this
color, which is an indicator that DVCPRO HD media plays by skipping frames. To avoid skipped
frames, use the Transcode command and select a compatible resolution.