Shift or move the timeline

ed

Newbie Joined: Jun 01, 2009 15:38 Messages: 3 Offline

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Jun 01, 2009 15:45

Is is very easy to change the timeline, I can expand it, making it longer or I can make it shorter.

But how can I move the time line, for example to the left ?

(for example, I want the timeline to start with 20 minutes, so I want to slide the first 20 minutes away, out of sight when I want to edit my work from 20 minutes to 60 minutes....

pjc

Senior Member Location: Aus Joined: Sep 12, 2008 03:48 Messages: 262 Offline

Jun 01, 2009 15:57

But how can I move the time line, for example to the left ?

Unlike other NLEs you cannot do this in PD.
The work around is, for your example, to place a black colourboard on the video track in front of your editing and set the duration of the black video to 20 mins.

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ed

Newbie Joined: Jun 01, 2009 15:38 Messages: 3 Offline

Jun 02, 2009 14:46

thanks for your reply, although it is not exactly what I had in mind

imagine I want to edit a section of my video, somewhere between 45 min and 60 minutes, for instance I want to remove a section, how do I get this on my timeline without compressing the whole lot so that I can not see what I am editing ?

I just want the timeline to slide..... (shift, move)

vn800rider

Senior Contributor Location: Darwen, UK Joined: May 15, 2008 04:32 Messages: 1949 Offline

Jun 02, 2009 14:59

Hi Ed,

If I understand you correctly, you have a timeline that extends past the right hand edge of the screen and you want to move to a position not shown, but you do not want to compress the timeline down.

Below the timeline edit pane with the main video, the PiP, and audio tracks etc you should have a traditional windows slider bar that allows you to move the timeline 'within the window' so to speak so you can view just a section. How much you see depends on how much the timeline has been compressed/extended.

Is that what you want?

Cheers
Adrian

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ed

Newbie Joined: Jun 01, 2009 15:38 Messages: 3 Offline

Jun 02, 2009 15:49

YES !!! That's it, now I can slide.......

The reason this was invisible was because it was hidden behind my taskbar....

Thanks a lot from another biker, greets from Holland.

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Online

Jun 02, 2009 15:50

Whoa! Adrian!

That's really thinking outside the square!

Ed - in XP & Vista you can set auto-hide the task bar in the control panel.

I have found the PD7 screen to be a bit inflexible myself.

Cheers -

Tony

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