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Chapter 4

Your system uses an electronic storyboard. Scenes are

selected from the scene bin (item (7)) and put into order on

the storyboard, located in the upper section of the screen. In

the storyboard the selected scene is in the center. The se-

lected scene length (duration) is displayed above the scene to

highlight it. Clicking on a scene in the storyboard causes it to

be moved to the center (often referred to as the "selected" or

"active" scene). The edit screen display depends on the set

screen resolution. Resolutions above 1024 x 768 pixels result

in a multiple-row scene bin. Depending on the chosen resolu-

tion (see chapter 5: VGA mode), at least seven entire scenes

will ﬁt into a visible part of the Storyboard.

But there is no limit to the number of scenes that may actually

be present on the storyboard. The storyboard can be scrolled

to the left or right. The starting point is to the left, and scenes

are played sequentially from left to right.

The Storyboard can also be displayed as a `Timeline´. For

this, you require a VGA or DVI screen resolution of at least

1024x768 pixels. To use the Timeline display, you must

activate it in the System Settings. Until now, you have been

using a Storyboard style editing suite, which sorts the scenes

in order of playback. These scenes are tagged with symbols

representing the effects. This (particularly for beginners) very

effective method can be further optimized by additionally using

a Timeline display.

The Timeline

With the new system software, you can make use of the

Timeline display as opposed to the Storyboard method. This is

often preferred by many professional video editors.

In the Storyboard, all added scenes are shown as a sequence

of pictures, each representing a speciﬁc scene. Effects, inserts

and titles are also shown as pictures in the Storyboard. This

allows for a very clean and uncluttered display of the sequence

of scenes and effects used. Important information such as the

length of the scene in relation to the entire Storyboard can not

be seen right away however.

When viewing the project as a Timeline, you instead see

scenes and effects as bars positioned on a time axis. The

length of the bars is shown in proportion to the length of the

entire project. In addition, you can compare scene lengths

directly with each other.

Effects and inserts are also shown as bars in the Timeline. In

order to improve the overview, they are shown as separate

bars – or tracks as we‘ll call them. Apart from the video track,

there‘s a track for the insert, image processing effects, titles

and transitions. Above the tracks, there is a time scale to help

you keep track of the time position for the scenes and effects.

The Timeline is the central element for your video editing work.

You can activate the Timeline via System Settings > Story-

board options > Mode. Depending on the settings you make,

the system switches between the Storyboard and Timeline

display mode. The Timeline is shown in the same way in the

Edit, as well as the effect menus. The audio menu additionally

shows the audio tracks.

The top part of the screen shows the Timline, which is divided

into different parts. The view depends on the settings you have

made for the Timeline. The top of the screens holds the time

scale for reading the time and position of scenes in the project.

You can change the time display type via System Settings >

Additional Settings > Timecode display.

Beneath the time scale, you‘ll ﬁnd the video track. All scenes

are shown as a sequence of bars or tracks, which can be

zoomed at varying factors. One option is to zoom so that the

ﬁrst and last frame of a scene is seen on the ends of the bar.

The scene name is shown in the middle. If the bar is too short

to show all elements, only the start frame is shown. If you

zoom out even further, only the scene name will be displayed.

Each scene is separated by a vertical line, representing the

beginning of a new scene. The active scene is highlighted by a

different color – and is not, unlike the Storyboard mode, posi-

tioned in the middle of the screen. In addition, the active scene

(or the active insert part) sports a bright line at the bottom.

If you position an insert over a scene, you‘ll ﬁnd the insert

scene in the insert track, just below the video track. It is posi-

tioned correctly beneath the background scene. The elements

found in this track can also display frame pictures or just text,

depending on your settings. You‘ll also ﬁnd that the effects are

positioned exactly at the right time position. Effects are shown,

just like the scenes, as bars with the respective effect icon.

The lowest track is used to position transitions. The display

method is the same as used for image processing effects.

As soon as you insert a transition, the video track display will

change. Two consecutive scenes will be placed `over each

other´. The overlapping area will be shown as having its own

ﬁeld, at the same length as the transition. The ﬁeld contains a

a diagonal yellow line. In addition, depending on the setup, two

smaller images representing the ﬁrst and last frame of the area

may be shown.

To the right of the Timeline, you can see a larger version of ﬁrst

frame of the currently used scene. Directly beneath the image,

the scene name and the scene length. Underneath, there are

various settings for `Range´and `Zoom´ to help you dene the

best possible overview for the Timeline part you are

working on.

`Zoom +´: Zoom into the Timeline display to improve visibility of

short clips and effects. Each click doubles the zoom area. The

time scale carries information about the currently displayed

area in seconds (s) or minutes (m).

`Zoom -´: Zoom out of the Timeline to improve the overall

overview of the project. If you are suing long scenes, a smaller

Timeline view may be more appropriate. Each click makes the

view half as small.

`O´: This button switches the view to 20 scenes wide, but at

a maximum of 10 minutes length of your project. The current

scene is shown in the middle.

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