Timeline Editing Settings
The settings you use for editing to and on the timeline can be found to the right and above the timeline. Most of these settings also have a keyboard shortcut associated with them.
Editing Operations
Insert Edit button
Click to insert the selected source into the timeline at the positioner. The overall length of the timeline may change.
Overwrite Edit button
Click to overwrite material in the timeline at the positioner with the selected source. The overall length of the timeline does not change.
Replace Edit button
Click to replace the selected timeline clip or clips with the selected source clip. The overall length of the timeline sequence does not change. The replacement clip must be of equal length or longer than each clip it is replacing. If longer, extra frames are added as tail frames.
Secondary Edit box
Select an editing operation to apply to the selected source clip.
Secondary Edit box
Select an editing operation to apply to the selected source clip.
Trimming Operations
Editorial Mode box
Choose an editorial mode for working with clips on the timeline.
Select: | To: | |
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Select | ![]() | Select or move a timeline element, without performing any trim operations. |
Select Backward / Forward | Select one of four options: Single Track Forward, Single Track Backward, All Tracks Forward, or All Tracks Backward. When selected, a single click on a Timeline segment selects one or all segments before/after the segment. The state of the Link button affects the selection. | |
Trim | ![]() | Set Trim mode to perform general trim (or roll) operations on a clip. |
Slip | ![]() | Set Slip mode, a trimming mode that offsets the frames in a clip without trimming the clips before or after it. |
Slip Cuts | ![]() | Set Slip Cuts mode, a trimming mode that considers multiple selected clips as a single segment. |
Slide | ![]() | Set Slide mode, a trimming mode that trims the clips before and after the clip without changing the frames used in it. The state of the Ripple button has an effect on this mode. |
Slide Cuts | ![]() | Set Slide Cuts mode, a trimming mode that trims the clips before and after it, while also changing the frames used in a clip. The state of the Ripple button has an effect on this mode. |
Slide Keyframes | ![]() | Set Slide Keyframes mode, a trimming mode that slides only animation keyframes on a clip. |
Sync button
Enable to select and link all elements in an editorial group. This is useful if you want to trim all clips in a group by the same number of frames, for example. You can invert the Sync mode on-the-fly during manipulation, with the Invert Sync Group Selection keyboard shortcut.
Ripple button
When gesturally adding material into an edit sequence, enable to perform an insert edit, disable to perform an overwrite edit. When moving (or trimming) clips on the timeline, enable to fill the gap left by the removed clip or frames, disable to leave the gap.
Ripple On
Ripple Off
Snap button
Enable to snap to the closest transition, positioner, or mark to help gesturally align edits on the timeline. Press Shift to invert the snap mode during manipulation.
Keyframe Move Modes box
Select how the animation channel is affected when you trim elements with animated effects.