Timeline

• Assemble from storyboard lays every shot on V1 in board order with its take in the cut. Storyboard supers go on the T track. On a timeline that already has clips it asks Rebuild V1 from the storyboard?: only V1 is replaced, other tracks stay, and ⌘Z undoes it.
• Shots without a take come in as offline slates that hold their place until the shot is generated.
• The Shots tab’s Re-assemble opens the same confirmation after you pick a different take.
• At the Cut stage the Director assembles, adds sound by role and proposes the Cut checkpoint.

• Click to select; ⇧- or ⌘-click adds clips. Drag a clip to move it within tracks of its kind. Drag an edge to trim; a red Overlaps another clip means the drop is refused.
• Blade (B) cuts a clip where you click. Split at playhead (S) splits the selected clips, or every clip under the playhead.
• Ripple edits makes trims and deletes close the gap. ⇧⌫ ripple-deletes either way.
• Right-click a clip for Add cross dissolve, Use vN (swap to another take of the shot), Reset gain, Delete and Ripple delete. Right-click a gap for Close gap.
• Snapping (N) snaps to clip edges and the playhead.

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• Every clip: timeline in and out, duration, source in, shot and shot version, and Online or Offline.
• Audio clips: Gain from −24 to +12 dB (0 dB resets).
• Dissolves: Cross dissolve out with its length, and Remove.
• Vertical framing (projects wider than 9:16): where the 9:16 crop sits. Auto follows the subject in a vertical render; drag to fix it, or add keyframes with Key at playhead.

• Title (T) adds a lower third on the T track at the playhead (it needs a gap of at least half a second).
• Edit it in the Inspector: Text and Second line, Style (Lower third, Super, Title card, End card), Align, Position, Fade in / out (0–2 s) and its in and out. The viewer previews as you type.
• Vertical projects can carry word-by-word captions on T2 (Captions); edit their text and timing in the Inspector.

• The takes’ own sound rides on V1 as the effects bed.
• Music dips automatically under the VO and comes back after each line (in the preview and the render alike).
• Mute, solo, hide and lock on the track headers are viewing aids for this session; they are not saved.
• Add tracks with + next to Tracks.

• Every edit, undo and redo saves a new version (Saved). The version picker lists them with what changed.
• Opening an older version is read-only: Back to vN (current) (Esc) or Restore this version (saved as a new version, undoable).
• If the Director or another tab saved a newer version while you were editing, a vN is available — Load chip appears.

• Render opens the Renders panel: Proxy (720p review copy), Animatic (1080p with timecode) or ProRes HQ for finishing. Render vN renders the current version. Ready renders have Open and Download.
• Export downloads the cut for an NLE: Premiere Pro XML, Final Cut Pro XML or OpenTimelineIO. For media and stems, use Deliver.
• Rendering, like exporting, is free.

Click the timecode to type a jump (00:00:05:12, 2.5s or +12f). On windows narrower than 768 px the Timeline is read-only.