Introduction
With the introduction of a Main Track, Scenery now has a dedicated space for the primary content of your video. The Main Track is identified on the left side of the timeline as “Main A/V” to indicate this track accepts Video and Video with Audio clips. Secondary Tracks you see above and below the Main Track are labeled V2 and A2. As you add more Secondary Tracks, their labels will increment to V2, V3, A2, A3, etc.
Editing your Scenes
After you’ve imported your media, you can start to edit your Scene on the Timeline page.
To make the most of this new editing experience, start assembling your video in the Main Track and use the Secondary Tracks above and below for supporting content like cutaways and titles above or voiceover and music below.
In the Main Track all trimming operations automatically ripple the timeline, moving all clips downstream in your Scene. One of the benefits of this behavior is that all clips in the Secondary Tracks, (V2, A2, etc.) will remain in sync with Main Track content as you trim.
As you trim your clips in the Main Track and clips in Secondary Tracks move along in sync, there may be cases where clips run into each other on Secondary Tracks creating a clip conflict. You’ll notice the clips will show red clip edges to denote where that collision is happening. To continue trimming your Main Track clips, you will need to move your clips in Secondary Tracks to another track.
As a rule, Scenery will not overwrite your clips during a trim in order to ensure you don’t lose any content.
Editing to the timeline
Let’s look at dragging clips to the timeline and using the Edit commands.
Dragging into the Main Track
When dragging a clip into the Main Track, you can assemble your clips sequentially, or when you want to place a clip between two clips you can do what’s called an Insert Edit. In the Main Track, it placing clips between clips will Insert, and ripple all content downstream of that clip.
Note: Audio-only clips cannot be added to the Main Track.
Dragging into Secondary Tracks
When dragging clips to any of the Secondary Tracks above or below the Main Track, clips will not ripple. You can place your clips in the existing Secondary Tracks (V2 and A2) or drag and drop above or below one of these tracks to add another Secondary Track automatically.
Note: Audio-only clips can only be placed below the Main Track. When you separate audio from a clip, it will be placed below the Main Track.
Add to End
When using the command Add to End (Keyboard shortcut [e]) clips will be automatically added to the Main Track, unless they are Audio only clips. Audio only clips will be added below the Main Track.
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Add at Playhead
When using the command Add at Playhead (Keyboard shortcut [p]) clips will be added at the playhead in the first available Secondary Track. Audio-only clips will be placed below the Main Track and all other clips will be placed above.
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Insert at Playhead
In addition to Add at Playhead, you can also use Insert at Playhead (Keyboard shortcut [Option + p]). This places your clip in the Main Track doing an Insert edit at the playhead. Because it’s in the Main Track, all content will ripple downstream of this edit.
⌥ + p
Modifier Keys & Editing Options
Sometimes the default behavior isn’t exactly what you want. You may want to delete a clip from the Main Track and leave a gap behind, or trim something off clip, but not affect the timing of the rest of your Scene. That’s where Scenery’s trimming modifiers come in handy.
Leaving Gap on the Main Track
To trim a clip on the Main Track and leave gap, therefore avoid rippling content downstream, hold down COMMAND when trimming.
⌘ + drag
To delete a clip on the Main Track and add a gap that will be the same duration of the deleted clip, tap COMMAND and DELETE.
⌘ + delete
While the default behavior of the Main Track is to do an Insert edit when dragging and dropping a clip, you can also do what’s known as an Overwrite edit. An Overwrite edit is when you’re essentially replacing the existing clip with the clip you’re dragging on top of it. To perform an Overwrite edit during drag hold down COMMAND and OPTION and drop the clip on top of any clip in the Main Track.
⌘ + ⌥ + drag
Note: When dragging clips in Secondary Tracks, the default behavior is an Overwrite edit instead of Insert. To avoid Overwrite edits in Secondary Tracks, make sure the Snapping preference (Keyboard Shortcut “s”) is on and snap your clips next to other clips rather than dragging on top of them.
Edge selection and Ripple vs Roll Trim
When hovering over the edge of your clips in the Main Track, you’ll have the ability to choose the type of edit you want to do, either a Ripple trim or a roll trim. A Ripple trim as described, is when all content downstream of your trim will move in sync, with this edit you are increasing or decreasing the overall duration of your Scene. A Roll trim will change the outpoint of the outgoing clip while simultaneously changing the In point of the Incoming clip, no other content is Rippled, as you’re merely changing where one clip starts and another ends.
To choose which edit you want, wait for the cursor to change and then click down on your clip edges. When you hover to the left edge you’ll be doing a Ripple remove, the right edge a Ripple add and the middle is a Roll Trim.
When hovering over the edge of clips in Secondary Tracks, you can Roll trim clips that are adjacent or do a Simple trim on standalone clips, these trims will never ripple any of your downstream content.
Once you click down on the edge you can simply drag to trim or you can use the Right and Left arrow keys to trim one frame at a time.
Add/Remove tracks
Tracks will automatically be created if you drag into the space above or below the last visible track. On the left hand side of the scene you can also choose to add a track above or below the current clip you have selected.
Note: You can always delete an empty track by clicking the three dots and selecting "Delete Empty track". This is useful if you need more screen real estate in your timeline view.
Gap
In the Main Track you can Insert gaps between clips by selecting a clip and right-clicking to "Insert Gap before clip" . This allows you to leave gap as a placeholder, or as a spacer between clips. Gap only exists in the Main Track.
Gap can be trimmed, split and deleted just like any other content
Please Contact Scenery support or "Invite Support to Project" if your main track doesn’t appear as you’d like.
