Determining The Visibility Of Clips; Displaying Clips On The Timeline - Ulead MEDIASTUDIO PRO 8.0 User Manual

CHAPTER 2: WORKING WITH THE TIMELINE 53
Solo button
When pressed down, only the current track will be included in the preview or
rendered file and all other tracks will be disabled.
Hide button
When pressed down, the current track will be hidden and not included in the
preview or rendered file.

Determining the visibility of clips

Often you will have a number of clips that will be playing at the same time in a
project. It is common, for example, to have one main clip in Video1 and a second
clip with titles in Video2. Clips that are in the upper tracks in the Timeline will
always play over (on top of) clips located in lower tracks. Since Video2 is higher in
the Timeline than Video1, it will play over Video1.

Displaying clips on the Timeline

Click the Display Mode button on the Timeline Toolbar (or click View:
Timeline Display Mode) to choose how clips are displayed: Filmstrip,
Waveform, Thumbnail, or Filename modes.
Filmstrip and Waveform modes display clips graphically (video clips as frames,
audio clips as waveforms) allowing you to see the entire contents of a clip. While
the graphic modes may be easier to work with, it takes time for your computer to
redraw clips every time they have been modified. To help improve performance,
but still retain some visual cues as to the contents of a clip, select the Thumbnail
mode (video only). This shows the first and last frames of a video clip separated by
the file name of the clip. The last mode, File name, represents clips by their file
names only with no graphical information. This is the fastest mode as it is the
quickest to display, but offers no visual reference to the clip's contents.
Underneath the timecode ruler in the Timeline Window, you can show a project cue
bar which is useful for marking areas on a project for future edits, or show a
chapter point cue bar if you will be marking chapter points for a DVD project. A cue
bar can also be displayed underneath each video and audio track for placing clip
cues.