Chapter 6: The Timeline 25
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HAPTER
6:
The Timeline
No matter how great your photos and raw video footage may be, assembling them
into an enjoyable viewing experience will almost certainly take some editing. In
Pinnacle Studio for iPad, your main editing environment is the Movie Editor and
especially the video track of the Timeline. (Please see Chapter 9: Audio for
coverage of the Timeline audio tracks.)
In the Timeline’s video track, the length of the clip
corresponds to its duration in the movie.
The Storyboard and the video track both contain exactly the same sequence of
clips. The position and length of a clip on the video track visually conveys its start
time and duration in the movie relative to the Timescale. Expanding the Timescale
makes it easier to work with the clip when you are adjusting its duration with the
trimming tools.
Trimming tools
The source video you bring in from the Library can rarely be used exactly as-is.
Even if you pre-trimmed the clip when adding it to your production, you may well
choose to make further adjustments using the Timeline’s trimming tools as editing
progresses. Keep in mind that any trimming you perform affects only the clips in
your project: the source media in the Library are not changed.
The razor blade may be used to split a clip so that another clip can be inserted at
that point on the video track. In Preview, the first clip would be seen in two parts
