Tool Menu
The options on this menu provide three modes and six tools which determine how operations are performed on clips in the timeline. The same options can also be accessed from Track Compositing and Timeline Edit Tools. More details on their usage can be found there.
Use the navigation to the left to go to the various items.
Modes
Normal Mode
Allows clips to be added to the timeline only where there is enough space to fit them in.
Overwrite Mode
Allows clips to be added to the timeline anywhere overwriting that portion of clips already there.
Insert Mode
Allows clips to be added to the timeline anywhere cutting and shifting clips already there to accommodate the inserted clip
Tools
Tip
ESCwill always switch from any selected timeline editing tool back to the Selection Tool.
Selection Tool
Use this to select clips in the timeline. Default keyboard shortcut is S.
Razor Tool
Use this to cut clips in the timeline. Default keyboard shortcut is X.
Spacer Tool
Use this to create or remove space in the timeline between clips. Temporarily groups clips for dragging them for this purpose. Default keyboard shortcut is M.
Slip Tool
Use this to trim, in a single operation, the In and Out points of the clip maintaining its position and duration in the timeline.
Ripple Tool
Use this to trim one clip and shift the adjacent clip accordingly.
Multicam Tool
Use this to cut between several cameras/tracks while playback is running. Will switch on the multitrack view in the project monitor. *[RGB]: Red Green Blue *[VFX]: Visual Effects *[feathering]: Smoothing or blurring the edges of a feature *[LFO]: Low-Frequency Oscillation *[dB]: decibel *[LUFS]: Loudness Units Full Scale *[AI]: Artificial Intelligence *[LLM]: Large Language Model *[HSV]: Hue, Saturation, Value *[SOP/Sat]: S(lope), O(ffset), P(ower) / SATuration *[CDL]: Color Decision List *[HSL]: Hue, Saturation, Lightness - Using HSL color space is useful for subtle color changes *[px]: pixel *[hh:mm:ss:ff]: hours:minutes:seconds:frames *[Hz]: Hertz *[CIE]: Commission internationale de l'éclairage, French for International Commission on Illumination *[DCI]: Digital Cinema Initiative *[nadir]: direction pointing directly below a particular location *[OS]: Operating System *[decibel]: Unit of measurement (dB) for sound levels *[clipping]: A form of distortion that limits a signal once it exceeds a threshold *[Spectrogram]: Visual representation of the spectrum of frequencies of a signal as it varies with time *[prevent clipping]: Dynamic range compression (DRC)is an audio signal processing operation that reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds, thus reducing or compressing an audio signal's dynamic range. *[SNR]: Signal-to-Noise Ratio *[dbFS]: Decibels relative to full scale *[QHD]: Quad-HD *[UHD]: Ultra High Definition *[XML]: Extensible Markup Language *[fps]: frames per second *[NTSC]: National Television Standard Committee - defined the TV system used in the United States, Japan and many other countries *[PAL]: Phase Alternating Line - a colour encoding system for analogue television *[LFE]: Low Frequency Effects *[RAW]: The RAW file format is digital photography's equivalent of a negative in film photography: it contains untouched, raw pixel information straight from the digital camera's sensor *[DSLR]: Digital Single Lens Reflex *[DOF]: Depth of Field *[NDF]: Neutral Density Filter *[AVI]: Audio Video Interleave *[BT.601]: A standard from 1982 defining how RGB color primaries get turned into the YCbCr channels used by modern codecs *[BT.709]: A standard from 1990 which does the same at BT.601 but the transfer coefficients are slightly different *[grep]: A Unix command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines that match a regular expression *[MLT]: Media Lovin' Toolkit - An open source software multimedia framework designed and developed for tv broadcasting *[SD]: Secure Digital - a proprietary, non-volatile, flash memory card format developed by the SD Association *[SFX]: Special Effects *[VBR]: Variable Bit Rate *[HD]: High Definition *[GUI]: Graphical User Interface