MacroSystem Bogart SE Ver.4 User manual - Manual (Page 32)

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If you click with the small right trackball button on a scene,
you will get a context menu that allows fast access to several
actions . This will greatly reduce your work when you have a
high screen resolution because the long mouse movements
necessary to trim or display a scene in the bin will no longer be
necessary . The functionality included in the menu is also avail-
able via buttons or options of the edit menu .
The menu allows you to play, trim or delete the scene . You can
also mark the scene or put the pointer on top of it and open its
action menu for the markings . The scene can also be renamed,
be assigned to a group, stored in the clipboard and its scene
information can be accessed .
The Storyboard can also be displayed as a ‘Timeline’ . For this,
you require a VGA, HDMI or DVI screen resolution of at least
1024x768 pixels, or 1280x720 for HDMI . To use the Timeline
display, you must activate it in the System Settings . Until now,
you have been using a Storyboard style editing suite, which
sorts the scenes in order of play back . These scenes are
tagged with symbols representing the effects . This (particularly
for beginners) very effective method can be further optimized
by also making use of a Timeline display (especially for more
professional use) .
The Timeline
With the new system software, you can make use of the
Timeline display as opposed to the Storyboard method . This
is often preferred by many professional video editors . In the
Storyboard, all added scenes are shown as a sequence of
pictures, each representing a specific scene . Effects, inserts
and titles are also shown as pictures in the Storyboard . This
allows for a very clean and uncluttered display of the sequence
of scenes and effects used . Important information such as the
length of the scene in relation to the entire Storyboard can not
be seen right away however .
When viewing the project as a Timeline, you instead see
scenes and effects as bars positioned on a time axis . The
length of the bars is shown in proportion to the length of the
entire project . In addition, you can compare scene lengths
directly with each other .
Effects and inserts are also shown as bars in the Timeline . In
order to improve the overview, they are shown as separate
bars - or tracks as we’ll call them . Apart from the video track,
there’s a track for inserts, image processing effects, titles and
transitions . Above the tracks, there is a time scale to help you
keep track of the time position for the scenes and effects . The
Timeline is the central element for your video editing work .
You can activate the Timeline via System Settings > Story-
board options > Mode . Depending on the settings you make,
the system switches between the Storyboard and Timeline
display mode . This menu can also be used to access even
more settings to adjust the scene bin and the storyboard . The
Timeline is shown in the same way in the edit menu, as well as
the effect menu . The audio menu additionally shows the audio
tracks .
The top part of the screen contains the Timeline, which is
divided into different parts . The view depends on the settings
you have made for the Timeline . The top of the screens holds
the time scale for reading the time and position of scenes in
the project . You can change the time display type via System
Settings > Additional Settings > Timecode display . Below the
time scale, you’ll find the video track . All scenes are shown as
a sequence of bars or tracks, which can be zoomed at vary-
ing factors . One option is to zoom so that the first and last
frame of a scene are seen on the ends of the bar . The scene
name is shown in the middle . If the bar is too short to show all
elements, only the start frame is shown . If you zoom out even
further, only the scene name will be displayed . Each scene
is separated by a vertical line, representing the beginning of
a new scene . The active scene is highlighted by a different
color and is not, unlike the Storyboard mode, positioned in the
middle of the screen . In addition, the active scene (or the ac-
tive insert part) sports a bright line at the bottom .
If you position an insert over a scene, you’ll find the insert
scene in the insert track, just below the video track . It is posi-
tioned correctly below the background scene . The elements
found in this track can also display frame pictures or just text,
depending on your settings . Below the insert track is the effect
track for image processing and title effects . The effects are
also precisely positioned in the timeline, on the basis of time
and their relation to the scenes . Just as scenes, effects are
shown as stripes, with a corresponding effect symbol in them .
Transitions can be positioned on the lowest track, they are
shown in a way which is similar to image processing effects .
The display method is the same as used for image process-
ing effects . As soon as you insert a transition, the video track
display will change . Two consecutive scenes will be placed
‘over each other’ . The overlapping area will be shown as hav-
ing its own field, at the same length as the transition . The field
contains a diagonal yellow line . In addition, depending on the
setup, two smaller images representing the first and last frame
of the area may be shown .
To the right of the Timeline, you can see a larger version of first
frame of the currently used scene . Directly below the image,