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Track information Displays information about the tracks. Show or hide track information by clicking the
Show/Hide Track Info button . The columns display the following information:
• V
Shows whether a track is visible or a sound or MIDI track is audible. Click the Eye icon to show or hide
visible tracks, or to turn muting or Mute on and off for audible tracks. In general, hidden tracks can affect the bound­
aries of a movie.
• L
Shows whether a track is locked. Click the Lock icon to lock or unlock the track. When a track is locked, you
can’t change it, and “(locked)” appears next to the track name in the track content area.
•
Type icon
Shows track type. For example, the Video icon identifies a video track, and the Text icon
identifies a text track.
Track list area This list on the left side of the Time Editor displays the tracks in the movie. Each track bar is
identified by its name (such as Video Track 1) or title if you enter one in the appropriate Inspector. To delete a track,
select it and choose Edit > Delete (Windows) or Edit > Clear (Mac OS). The relative position of tracks in the track
list determines the layering order of a movie.
Track content area
This list on the right side of the Time Editor displays a bar (or keyframe for a sprite sample) that
represents the media on each track. The left edge of the bar marks the start time of the track, and the right edge marks
the end time. The keyframe marks the start time of the sprite sample.
Marker menu
Lists the time markers you create and lets you move the time cursor directly to a point on the time
ruler. GoLive displays the frame at that time in the movie window. To create a new marker, position the pointer on
the Mouse Time row below the time ruler. When the pointer becomes a small triangle, place the triangle at the time
location where you want to create a new marker and then click. Type a name for the marker in the text box.
Time ruler Displays time intervals for the tracks in the track content area, depending on what you have selected in
the time scale slider at the bottom of the window.
Time scale slider Controls the time scale shown in the track content area. You can adjust the time scale to make it
easier to examine the timing relationships between the tracks in multiple-track movies. Drag the time scale slider to
the right to decrease the resolution of the time scale (up to a maximum of one minute) and compress the track bars.
Dragging the time scale slider to the right allows you to survey larger sections of the movie. Drag the time scale slider
to the left to increase the resolution of the time scale (down to a minimum of one frame) and lengthen the track bars.
Any changes you make with the time scale slider are saved between sessions. The default time scale setting is 6 frames
per second.
Time cursor
Controls the location of the current frame (or time) in a movie that appears in the Preview tab. To
change the current frame, drag the time cursor left or right, or click on the time ruler. Before adding a new track,
position the time cursor at the time where you want the new track to begin.
See also
“To set the layering order of tracks” on page 533
“To align the timing of tracks and samples” on page 534
“To edit a sample” on page 530
Samples
Some tracks contain samples that let you define attributes related to the track type. For example, one attribute for a
text track is text content, and one attribute for a filter track is effect type (such as Cross Fade or Dissolve).