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Let me now review the Premiere Pro Timeline. The Timeline here at the base of the interface is where the bulk of your Premiere work will be done. It'll take me quite a few movies to cover all of its various features, tools, and settings, but let me introduce you to some of its main features at this time. The Timeline window graphically represents all the program clips arranged by video track, which is in the top and audio tracks on the bottom. These are in the vertical dimension and by time in the horizontal dimension. Video and audio tracks are displayed along the left hand margin of the window here. A ruler representing time is displayed along the top margin where my mouse is right here. By default, the Timeline starts at time zero. If I zoom in right there, you'll notice that that's zero, zero time start, but that can be changed. When viewed in the Timeline, your program looks much like edited film or analog video. However, the Timeline lets you view any segment of the program instantly, without the need to rewind or fast forward film or tape. Notice that I can move my Current Time Indicator. In the Program view, notice right up here is updated immediately. There's a little bit of a lag there due to my video card, but I don't really have to wait very long. If I, my video refreshes faster; that will be instantaneous. But notice again, there's no rewinding or fast forwarding. Even more important than providing a quick means of viewing your clips, the Timeline is an efficient tool for editing your clips into finished projects. You'll use the Timeline to select clips, group them, delete them, split and copy and paste them, and much, much more. These tools are contained over here in the Tools window. You can also select clips. Let me zoom out on this Timeline here. There's also a Zoom tool down here, as well as a magnifying glass that will allow you to zoom in and out. But if I zoom out on this sequence, notice that I can take the Selection tool right here and select multiple clips and then do things such as copy them, cut them, paste them. You can also under the Clip menu here, group them, so now these clips are all going to be moved and manipulated as a group. Without grouping them, you'll notice that can move the clips independently of each other. You'll also have multiple video tracks. You can't see that here, but I can move this video track. Let's go ahead and move this up like so and in addition to additional tracks here, I can also change the height of both the video and audio tracks. But I wanted to point out that I have another video track up here, and I can drag a clip into that upper track. I have three tracks here, but I can also customize that. So like the Monitor window, the Timeline window can be completely customize to suit your working preferences or the demands of a particular project. I've already showed you the zero point over here. You can change the zero point by clicking in the upper right-hand corner, Sequence Zero Point, and then I change it right there. I can also toggle the time sequence. I can Show audio time units, which I usually do, in minutes and seconds, as well as Show the view in video frames. This is the number of frames now up here. So let me toggle that back and forth. This is frames and these are audio time units, so you can work in either view. I already showed you that you can expand and contract the height of these tracks. In general, I like to make these very, very wide so I can see them very well, and I'm doing this by clicking on the edge of that video track. You can compress or expand the tracks. Notice that Video Track 2 is compressed, but I can expand it by clicking on that icon and then dragging the top edge up so I have a wider track view there. The Track Display Styles can also be modified. Right here is the Track Display option. There's a drop-down there. I can show the head and tail. What that does is it just shows the first frame of the clip and the last frame. If I zoom in to this, you can see this a little bit better. There's the first frame of that clip, and there's the last frame. I can also show only the head. So there's the first frame of that clip and there's the first frame of the next clip. All the frames in between that are not shown. I can show all the frames or I can show just the name. You'll want to do this if your computer is refreshing slowly, things are slowing down and you don't really need to see those clips; you can just show the name. Or, if you do want to see something of the clip, the contents of the clip, you can Show Head and Tail only or just the Head Only, and if you have a very fast video card, video processing and everything's moving very quickly and you want to be able to see everything, then choose the Show All Frames option. Down here in the Audio tracks, you can show the wave form or not, Show Name only or show the wave form. These audio tracks can also be adjusted vertically to show more or less in terms of the height of that track. Tracks can also be deleted, added, and renamed. Again, the easiest way to do this is to right-click or Control click here in the name portion of the track. So I'm right-clicking right there, and I can rename, add tracks, or delete tracks. On the Macintosh, of course, you would Control click to get this contextual menu. I mentioned previously that many times, you'll be right-clicking on a context or window to get additional options related to that context or window; this is a perfect example of that. If I want to rename this track, I right-click or Control click on the video track right there, Video 1, and then rename it or add it or delete tracks there. I'll be reviewing and expanding upon these Timeline controls and features in much more detail in later movies, but for now, that will conclude this overview summary of the Timeline window, which is one of the more important interface components in Premiere Pro CS3.