Blackmagic Design DV/RES/BBPNLMIC User Manual

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Working with Segments in the Timeline

Most of the work in the Timeline involves trimming and aligning clip segments.

To select a single segment in the Timeline, do one of the following:

– Click the node’s name in the header.

– Click the node’s segment in the Timeline.

To add another segment to the selection, do one of the following:

– Hold Command and click additional segments to select discontiguous selections.

– Select a segment, and then hold Shift and click another segment to make a contiguous selection

of all segments in between.

To remove a segment from the selection, do the following:

– Hold Command and click a selected segment to deselect it.

TIP: Selecting a node’s name from the Timeline header also selects the node’s tile in the

Node Editor, with its controls displayed in the Inspector.

Moving Segments in the Timeline

To move the position of a segment, drag on the node’s segment in the Keyframes Editor. The cursor

will resemble a bar with two arrows pointing in either direction. Moving a segment changes where that

clip begins and ends in the composition.

The Move cursor

Trimming Segments

Trimming segments has different effects on Loaders, MediaIn and Effect nodes:

– Trimming a Loader or MediaIn node is similar to trimming clips in an editing application, in

that you’re changing the in and out points of the range of media that clip makes available to

your composition.

– Trimming the segments of effect nodes instead modifies the range of that node’s effect in the

composition. Outside of the trimmed region, that effect node will behave as if it were disabled.

TIP: Shortening the duration of effects nodes can optimize processing. Imagine a Loader or

MediaIn node that represents a clip that’s 100 frames long and is connected to a Defocus

node that’s animated from frames 80–100. There is little to no point in processing the defocus

node between frames 0–79, so trimming the defocus segment to start at frame 80 in the

Timeline will effectively prevent it from rendering and consuming either memory or processor

time until needed.

Chapter 69Animating in Fusion’s Keyframes Editor 1207

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