Switching between Timeline views

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Two types of views are available in the Timeline: Storyboard View and Timeline View.

Storyboard View

The fastest and simplest way to organize photos and video clips in a project is to use the Storyboard View. Each thumbnail in the storyboard represents a photo, video clip, or a transition. Thumbnails are shown in the order in which they appear in your project, and you can drag thumbnails to rearrange them. The duration of each clip is shown at the bottom of each thumbnail. In addition, you can insert transitions between video clips, and you can trim a selected video clip in the Preview Window.

VideoStudio Storyboard View

Timeline View

Timeline View gives you the most comprehensive display of the elements in your movie project. It divides a project into separate tracks for video, overlay, title, voice, and music.

VideoStudio Timeline View

 

Part	Description
1 — Show All Visible Tracks	Displays all tracks in your project.
2 — Track Manager	Lets you manage the tracks visible in the Timeline.
3 — Add / Remove Chapter or Cue	Lets you set chapter or cue points in your movie.
4 — Timeline ruler	Helps you determine clip and project length by displaying the project's timecode increments in hours:minutes:seconds:frames.
5 — Track button	Shows / Hides individual tracks.
6 — Enable / Disable Ripple Editing	When enabled, clips maintain their relative positions when a clip is added to the track. For more information, see Using Ripple Editing mode.
7 — Mute/Unmute	Lets you mute or unmute the audio for the track.
8 — Track Transparency	Opens Track Transparency mode. See Adjusting track transparency.
9 — Automatically scroll Timeline	Enables or disables scrolling along the Timeline when you preview a clip that extends beyond the current view.
10 — Scroll controls	Lets you move around your project by using the left and right buttons or dragging the Scroll Bar.
11 — Video Track	Contains videos, photos, graphics, and transitions. Note that in HTML 5 mode, you can also have a Background Track.
12 — Overlay Tracks	Contains overlay clips, which can be video, photo, graphic, or color clips. Note the HTML 5 projects also have overlay tracks.
13 — Title Track	Contains title clips.
14 — Voice Track	Contains voice-over clips.
15 — Music Track	Contains music clips from audio files.

You can use the mouse wheel to scroll through the Timeline.

Right-click on any track button and choose Select all media to select all media clips that are in the track.

When the pointer is at the Zoom controls or Timeline ruler, you can use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out of the Timeline.

To switch between Storyboard View and Timeline View