User Manual

16 Using the Timeline
Your Avid editing application represents each edit and effect on a timeline to help you track and
manipulate the elements of your sequence. The Timeline continuously updates as you work,
displaying icons and information that you can customize in various ways. The Timeline also has
its own set of editing tools for creating and revising edits and transitions across multiple tracks.
The audio and video tracks in the Timeline play in the Record monitor. You can continually edit
your sequence and review your changes until you are pleased with the result.
Timeline features are described in the following topics:
• Customizing Timeline Views
• Navigating in the Timeline
• Working with Segments
• Working with Multiple Tracks
• In to Out Highlighting in the Timeline
• Editing in Heads or Heads Tails View
• Performing a Quick Edit Using the Top and Tail Commands
• Working with Add Edits (Match Frames)
• Dupe Detection
• Editing with the Film Track
• Tracking Color Frame Shifts
• Finding Black Holes and Flash Frames
• Printing the Timeline
• Activating and Deactivating I/O Hardware