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22 VIDEO EDITOR
Saving the layout
Use the Layout Manager in the Window menu to save time arranging the
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windows in the workspace
To save your custom layout, type a Layout Template
Name, then click Save To. Giving your layouts intelligible names like "Audio -
Video Editing" or "Timeline Only" will help you work faster and more enjoyable.
You can assign hotkeys for quickly switching between different layouts. Just select
a layout, then choose any [Alt + Number] combination from the Hot-Key
Mapping menu in the upper right of the dialog box.
To use a layout on the Video Editor workspace, select it from the Existing Layout
Templates list, then click OK.
You can also click
in the Panel Manager to choose a workspace layout.
Setting up a video project
In Video Editor, the Timeline and its associated clips are referred to as a video
project, which is saved as a DVP (Digital Video Project) file. When you save a
video project, Video Editor only saves the positions and attributes of the clips in
the Timeline, not the actual source files themselves. The advantage to this is that
the DVP file has a relatively small file size and that any editing done is
nondestructive – that is, the editing doesn't affect the original source files. The
next time you open a DVP file, Video Editor links the clips in the project to the
source files accordingly.
Creating a new video project
To get started in Video Editor, you first need to create a video project. The video
project not only holds the clips that you place into the Timeline, but also defines
the properties for the resulting video, such as the television standard and the size
of the frames used. Any clips that you place into the project subsequently adopt
those properties, regardless of their original attributes.
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