Tips and tricks for working fast

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Keyboard Shortcuts

spaceSpacebar allows you to Play and Pause the video playback. Using this shortcut will also update the timeline view if the playhead gets lost.

left arrowright arrow If you click an event and hold down SHIFT, then click another event, you can move both events on the timeline in sync using the arrow keys.

up arrowdown arrowUsing the up/down arrow keys will allow you to move an event to a different track.

delete keyClick on an event and hit the delete key to remove it from the timeline.

Keep events to specific layers in your timeline

  • one layer for pop-ups
  • one layer for text
  • one layer photos etc.

You can drag the layers with your mouse up and down to rearrange

Use the zoom slider

(notice the little shaded bars represent your events from the beginning to end of your project)

Animated gifs work great. Also youtube/archive.org videos that are muted and shrunken down can be great.