EDIUS 7 Online Help

• Summary
• Project Settings
• Edit Settings
• Importing Sources
• Bin Operations
• Editing Timelines
• Applying Effects
• Title Creation
• Audio Operations
• Export of Edited Contents
• Interaction with STRATUS
• Appendix

• Before Using
• Configuring Editing Environments

• Before Installing EDIUS
• Installation
• User Registrations
• Uninstallation
• Appendix

• Summary
• Preparation before Editing
• Editing
• Outputting Work
• Other Convenient Functions

Operating Tracks

The following explains how to set and select tracks, and operations for changing numbers and moving tracks.

How to Set Tracks

The following content can be set in the [Project Settings] (Detailed Settings) dialog box.

You can also set the track settings for each sequence in the [Sequence settings] dialog box.

• TC preset

• TC mode

• Total length of timeline

• Number of tracks*

• Audio channel map

To set a track when creating a new project, see Changing Project Settings Temporarily to Create a New Project, and to change settings when editing a track, see Changing Project Settings.

Changing Project Settings Temporarily to Create a New Project

Changing Project Settings

To change settings for each sequence, see Sequence Settings.

Sequence Settings

Selecting Tracks

Select the track to be edited.

The selected track changes color.

When selecting multiple tracks, selected tracks can be added or canceled one track at a time by clicking the track panel with [Ctrl] on the keyboard held down.

You can select a range of tracks in a single operation by clicking the topmost track panel of the range with [Shift] on the keyboard held down and then clicking the bottommost track panel of the range.

All tracks can be selected by double-clicking the track panel.

Alternative

• Selecting/deselecting tracks (1 to 8A): [Shift] + [1] - [8]

• Selecting/deselecting tracks (1 to 8VA/V): [Shift] + [Ctrl] + [1] - [8]

• Selecting/deselecting tracks (all video tracks): [Shift] + [9]

• Selecting/deselecting tracks (all video tracks): [Shift] + [Ctrl] + [9]

• Selecting/deselecting tracks (all tracks): [Shift] + [0], [Shift] + [Ctrl] + [0]

Locking Tracks

When a track is locked, the clip placed on the track can no longer be edited or moved.

Track Header

A diagonal line is displayed in locked tracks, and clips can no longer be edited, moved, or deleted. The ripple mode and sync-lock also are disabled.

To unlock a track, right-click the lock panel, and click [Track Unlock].

• Multiple tracks can also be unlocked in a single operation. To unlock tracks, right-click the batch lock panel, and click [Lock Selected Tracks].

Adding Tracks

Track Header

To add VA tracks/A tracks, click [Channel map] and set the audio output channels of the additional tracks.

Configuring Audio Channel Map

Alternative

• Right-click a blank area of the track header, and select the track to add.

Duplicating Tracks

Track Header

The track is duplicated on top of the right-clicked track.

Moving Tracks

Alternative

• Right-click the track panel to move, and click [Move] → [Move Front] or [Move Back].

• Tracks can be moved only between tracks of the same kind (video, audio, title track).

• Multiple tracks cannot be selected and moved.

Deleting Tracks

Track Header

Tracks on which clips are not placed are deleted at this time.

• Multiple tracks can also be deleted in a single operation. Select and right-click the track, and click [Delete (Selected Tracks)].