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Timeline editing basics

Timeline editing basics

- [Instructor] In this chapter, we're going to shift our focus to refining your story by learning how to edit your movie with ScreenFlow. This is where you'll most likely spend most of your time within ScreenFlow. If you're following along, I'm in the Timeline project. ScreenFlow arranges your media clips into a stack of individual tracks. Think of these as layers of glass that you're looking down through from top to bottom. Content on a higher track will appear on top of or in front of other content that happens to be on a lower track. A common organizational practice in most video editing programs is to arrange your tracks so that all the visible media appears on the upper tracks and any audio only tracks appear on lower tracks. You can change the position of a track by using the small grabber handles here, on the left side of the track, and then click and drag that track into its new position in the stack. If you're working with a lot of tracks, it may be helpful to switch to short…

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