Timeline

The timeline contains all your captured frames and you can view and edit them here. To help you identify and select individual frames, they are magnified as your mouse pointer moves over them, in a similar fashion to the Mac OS X Dock.

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The timeline offers the usual range of selection and editing tools as well as Drag&Drop. The Edit menu or the context menu on the frames offer common commands.
Furthermore the timeline offers additional tracks to sound, foreground and background images and movies, as well as the rotoscope track. In the screenshot above you see a timeline containing all possible tracks. From top to bottom there are

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Sound data usually offers more useful temporal information than images for precise animation. Therefore the thumbnails are faded out when hovering with the mouse in favor of the sound data. The mouse pointer indicates that clicking the track will play it from the mouse position.


The left edge of the timeline offers controls to deactivate/activate single tracks. Some context menus of the tracks offer additional functionality.

The small clock symbol at the very bottom is for switching between timecode and frame count based display.

"Min" and "Max" (only visible if affected tracks are present) toggles between the normal and a minimized display of the timeline. Minimizing the timeline display can be helpful if you don't need to see all details or need to save valuable screen space.

A vertical line shows the current playback and editing position in the movie.