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Navigating Using the Color Page Timeline
The Color page Timeline consists of two parts that work together, the Thumbnail Timeline and the Mini Timeline. These work together to let you examine and navigate the Timeline of your program in different ways.
The Color page Timeline
The scroll bar for the Mini-Timeline is independent of the scroll bar for the Thumbnail Timeline, and both can be set to show different ranges of clips. Using the scroll control of your pointing device lets you zoom into or out of the Mini-Timeline. When zoomed all the way out, the Mini-Timeline displays the entire timeline within the available width of the screen, making it a fast way of navigating the entire program from the beginning to the end. However, you can zoom into a particular section when you need more information about how an intricate arrangement of superimposed clips are organized while you’re grading.
Thumbnail Timeline
Provides a concise visual representation of your project where each clip is a single numbered thumbnail, regardless of its duration. Clicking a thumbnail moves the playhead to the first frame of that clip, while using the Up/Down Arrow keys moves the selection to the previous or next clip.
Whichever clip is at the current position of the playhead appears with its thumbnail outlined in orange. Middle-clicking and dragging as well as using the scroll wheel of your pointing device lets you scroll backward and forward through the Thumbnail timeline.
The Color page Thumbnail Timeline
Each thumbnail displays a variety of information above and below it, including a rainbow outline around the number of graded clips, the clip format, file name, or grading version text below each thumbnail, tracking or stabilization badges, flag badges, and link badges to indicate clip groups or automatic remote grade linking, where existent.
Mini-Timeline
Shows a miniature representation of the Timeline in the Edit page, where each clip’s width is proportional to its duration, and superimposed clips are shown on top of one another.