Horizontal time controls – Apple Final Cut Express HD User Manual
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Chapter 9
Timeline Basics
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 Unused area: This is the area either above or below the outermost video and audio
tracks in your sequence. Ordinarily, this area is blank, but if you drag clips directly
into this gray area, new tracks are created to accommodate them.
 Vertical scroll bars and thumb tabs: If you have more tracks than can be displayed in
the Timeline window at one time, the scroll bars let you scroll through your video
and audio tracks separately. The thumb tabs between the audio and video track
regions can be used to define a static area that contains separate groups of audio or
video tracks with their own scroll bars.
This can come in handy when you have considerably more audio tracks than video.
You can use the thumb tabs between your audio and video scroll bars to allocate
more space to your audio tracks and less for video. For more information about
creating a static area, see “
Working With Tracks in the Timeline
Horizontal Time Controls
 Ruler: The ruler along the top of the Timeline represents the total duration of your
edited sequence, from the first frame to the last. The ruler can be used for reference,
to see the timecode corresponding to the location of clips in the Timeline. You can
also click or drag the playhead in the ruler, which works exactly like the scrubber bar
in the Canvas.
Sequences can be a maximum of 12 hours.
Ruler
Playhead