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Timeline overview

Timeline overview - Camtasia Tutorial

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Timeline overview

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- [Instructor] Well, let's take a closer look at the timeline. Now the timeline looks like this ruler that's above all of your tracks, and it's broken up into units of time. The playhead always displays the time code for the current frame. Now, my playhead is currently parked at zero hours, zero minutes, 19 seconds and 15 frames. Camtasia defaults to dividing every second of real time into 30 frames per second. Therefore, you could say that my playhead is currently located at 19 1/2 seconds. If you drag your playhead forward, or you press period to advance one frame at a time, you can see that the last two numbers go up until you get to 29 and then they begin counting at zero, zero frames again. Time code is extremely helpful while editing since it lets you find and talk about specific points in your movie. And you can zoom into your timeline by dragging this slider to the right or pressing ctrl + shift + plus. As you do, the divisions on the timeline shows you more precise time…

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