Use the timeline

In Simple the timeline is the footage and its zooms, with Split, Cut and Add over them. Covers, speed changes and callouts get a row each once the video has one. Switch to Pro for every lane.

Lanes#

Under the footage, each kind of change has a lane in its own colour: zooms, moves, crops, covers, speed changes, camera layouts, callouts, captions, and music and sounds. A lane with nothing on it is not shown.

• Click a lane’s name to fold it to a slim strip, and click again to open it.
• The timeline’s ⋯ menu can Fold all lanes or Unfold all lanes, and brings back a lane you switched off.
• Press + beside Tracks to add a track, or + on the toolbar to add something at the playhead.

Getting around#

• Drag the ruler or the playhead to scrub. The preview follows as you drag.
• Hold ⌘ and scroll over the timeline to zoom about the pointer. A plain scroll pans.
• The toolbar also has Back 5 seconds and Forward 5 seconds.
• The speed chip on the toolbar says how fast the video plays at the playhead.

Adding at the playhead#

Press + on the toolbar to add any of these where the playhead is:

• Zoom, Motion and Crop
• Hide something and Speed change
• Layout change, on takes with a camera
• A callout: text, an arrow or a box
• Music or a sound, and Another video or an image