Editing in Timeline mode 63
Adjustment/Effect
If an adjustment or effect is to be changed over time, it is shown in your
Timeline header, along with its keyframe strip that hosts added keyframes. There
is no restriction on the number of adjustments or effects that a clip, track, or
group can have.
Video/Audio Track
A track is just a straightforward combination of a single light-grey timeline-wide
strip and its header. You can add multiple clips to a track by dropping a multiple
selection from the Media pane onto your track's strip. The clips will be added to
the timeline in succession with a default overlap.
MoviePlus supports multiple audio and video tracks so that it is possible to
compose more complicated projects with "layers" of video using fades to reveal
underlying layers.
You can apply video/audio effects and adjustments (like opacity, transform,
volume, and pan) to tracks and groups, which will have a resulting effect on all
the clips on that track or all the tracks in a group (or both), respectively; a clip's
crop adjustment may also be shown.
A Music Track is also provided for optional soundtracks.
Video Groups
Groups are not only a way of keeping complex compositions tidy—you can also
restrict editing to selected tracks by placing them inside a Video Group. Effect
Groups, for both Video and Audio, work in an identical way for global effect
control. The View menu also has an option to Show Master Groups, a top-level
group to allow you to mute, apply effects to, or alter adjustments for all video or
all audio at once.
Overlay Track
The Overlay Track, shown on a new project's timeline, is used to host text
captions such as movie titles as well as video overlays. Titles will be
superimposed over underlying movie content. These are dragged from the
Galleries pane (Text gallery).
