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‌— Hourly backups for the past X hours: The second field specifies how many hourly project backups you want to save. By default, two hourly backups will be saved for the current day. Past that number, hourly backups will begin to be discarded on a first in, first out basis.‌

— Daily backups for the past X days: The third field specifies for how many days you want to save backups. The very last backup saved on any given day is preserved as the daily backup for that day, and by default daily backups are only saved for two days. Past that number, daily backups will begin to be discarded on a first in, first out basis. If you’re working on a project over a longer stretch of time, you can always raise this number.

— Project backup location: Click the Browse button to choose a location for these backups to be saved. By default they’re saved to a “ProjectBackup” directory on your scratch disk, although you could change this to a volume that better fits into your data backup methodology. This folder contains both Project and Timeline backups.

Timeline View Options

As you’re working on an edit, it can often be useful to modify the appearance of the Timeline, changing the height of video or audio clips, choosing whether audio waveforms are drawn or not, and so on. Using the Timeline View Options drop-down at the far left of the Timeline, you can make these kinds of changes as you work.

Timeline View Options

Three buttons let you choose to show or hide specific Timeline interface elements, including the following:

The Timeline View Options drop-down

Show tabbed and stacked timelines: This option lets you open multiple timelines by displaying a tabbed interface, and also gives you the ability to show stacked timelines for simultaneous display of timelines one on top of another.

Subtitle Tracks: Lets you display or hide the subtitle tracks region of the Timeline. Hiding subtitle tracks does not disable subtitle display; to do that you must disable the currently displayed subtitle track.

Show Audio Waveforms: Lets you turn audio waveform viewing off and on. When Audio Waveform is turned off, audio tracks are minimized.

Video View Options

Three buttons let you choose the overall appearance of video and audio tracks. From left to right:

Filmstrip: Displays each clip as a series of frames along its length. The number of frames displayed depends on the current zoom level of the clip in the Timeline.

Thumbnail: Displays each clip as a solid color with a thumbnail image of the clip’s In point at the beginning of the clip, and a thumbnail image of the Out point at the end. The thumbnails displayed depend on the current zoom level, and track height of the clip in the Timeline. If the clip does not have enough room for both, only the In point thumbnail will appear.

Simple: Minimizes all track height and displays each clip as a solid color along its length. Hovering the mouse over the track selection indicator will reveal the track names in a tooltip.

Audio View Options

Three buttons govern the look of audio waveforms in the Timeline, when visible.

Non-Rectified Waveform: Lets you toggle between the waveform being drawn from the bottom of the audio track up, or centered and mirrored about itself.

Full Waveform: Hides the divider bar that keeps the waveform separate from the

file name area of each audio clip, so the waveform occupies the full space of each audio bar in the Timeline.

Waveform Border: Draws a dark border around the edges of each waveform to make them easier to see.

Track Height

Video track height slider: Lets you resize the size of all video tracks at once, independently of the audio tracks.

Audio track height slider: Lets you resize the size of all audio tracks at once, independently of the video tracks.

In addition, any track in the Timeline can be individually resized by dragging its top divider in the Track Header area. Track heights in the Edit page are independent of the Thumbnail and Waveform view settings in the Timeline View options. Previously, specific Timeline viewing options such as Filmstrip or

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