Timeline

Video and audio clips sit on separate tracks. Add a track with +V or +A, and change its height with Alt and the mouse wheel.

To open this menu, right-click a track name or press T. Remove track also removes the clips on the track, and the last video track always stays.

A file you drop on the timeline lands on the track and time where you drop it, and overwrites the clips it covers. A video with sound also adds one audio clip for each of its audio tracks, and an image lasts 5 seconds.

To swap the file of a clip, choose Replace in the clip menu. The clip keeps its place, its cuts and its settings.

Add or remove a clip

Ctrl click

Select a range

Shift click

Select an area

Drag on empty space

Select all

Ctrl A

Clear the selection

Esc

Drag a clip to move it, even to another track. It stops at the next clip unless you hold Ctrl, which lets it overwrite the clips that it covers. Hold Alt to move the video and the audio of a file apart.

Move 1 frame

CommaPeriod

Move 1 second

Shift CommaShift Period

With snapping on, the edge of a clip sticks to the playhead, to the start of the timeline and to the edges of other clips. N turns it on or off, and Shift flips it for one drag.

Drag an edge of a clip, or move the playhead to where the clip should start or end and press I or O. X restores the full length.

When two clips touch, the next clip follows the edge. Hold Alt to trim only one clip.

Split cuts every clip under the playhead in two. Each part is a clip of its own, so it can have its own settings.

Delete removes the selected clips and leaves a gap. Shift Delete is a ripple delete, which also closes the gap. If you use ripple delete more often, Ripple delete by default in Settings swaps the two keys.

To close a gap later, right-click it and choose Ripple delete. Edit > Close gaps closes all of them at once.

Right-click a clip to change its speed, from 0.13x to 8x. With interpolation on, a slowed clip becomes smooth slow motion, because interpolation adds the frames that it lacks.

For an audio clip, Gain in the same menu changes the volume, from -24 dB to +24 dB.

Drag a top corner of a clip to fade it in or out, for up to 5 seconds. To choose the curve of a fade, right-click near that edge of the clip. To set a crossfade, right-click between two clips that touch.

Zoom at the pointer

Ctrl wheel

Zoom at the playhead

Ctrl +Ctrl -

Scroll

Shift wheel

Fit all clips

\

Play or pause

SpaceK

Step 1 frame

LeftRight

Back or forward 1 second

JLShift LeftShift Right

Step to a keyframe

Alt LeftAlt Right

Go to start or end

HomeEnd

Volume

UpDown

Mute

M

Next or previous clip

][

Set start or end

IO

Split

SCtrl KCtrl B

Remove clip

DeleteBackspace

Ripple delete

Shift Delete

Restore full length

X

Close the gap

G

Undo

Ctrl Z

Redo

Ctrl Shift ZCtrl Y

Step to a keyframe only works in Lossless cut.

To see all hotkeys, choose Help > Shortcuts.