Editing in Timeline mode 77
Rippling with complex projects
For complex multi-track projects, you might worry that Rippling won't manage
all the necessary moves—don't worry, Rippling works regardless of the number
and type of clips or tracks involved. Providing you have selected the appropriate
Ripple mode you can move a large number of clips that span multiple tracks by
having Rippling enabled. Be sure to select an appropriate timeline zoom level
when selecting and moving your clips—you may wish to use a low zoom level (to
see all of your project) to make the move easy, but you might find that using a
higher zoom level (seeing just a few small clips) allows you to more easily select
and drag the correct clip. MoviePlus will automatically scroll the timeline in the
direction of your drag until you centre your mouse to choose a "drop zone", but
you could instead type a new start time for your selected clip in the Properties
pane—Rippling works however a clip is moved.
Snapping
Snapping is a design aid that helps you achieve neat layouts. When you are
moving objects around on the timeline (or trimming/stretching them), snapping
makes your edit jump to the nearest clip, to the position of the time indicator, to
the beginning of the timeline, and to a default transition overlap value.
By default, snapping is enabled, although you can switch it off from the Arrange
menu. To control which elements do and do not get snapped to, or to adjust
snap sensitivity, select Tools>Options (Snapping menu option). Hold down Alt
during your editing operations to temporarily switch snapping off (or on, if
disabled).
Using groups
Video groups
Video groups serve a couple of important functions on MoviePlus's timeline.
Firstly, they can help keep related tracks together for easy management. For
instance, applying an effect to a video group means that all tracks within the
group inherit the effect.
