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The timeline

The Raylight timeline showing a scene's animated layer tracks and a camera track.

The timeline runs along the bottom and works at two levels: the whole video, and one scene up close.

Zoomed out: the whole video

  • Scenes: each block is a scene, in playing order. Drag to reorder, drag an edge to trim, and they snap to each other.
  • Audio: sound laid under the scenes.

Together they are the shape of the video, start to finish.

Zoomed in: one scene

Click a scene to open it. The timeline fills with that scene's layers, one row each, showing how every layer moves. Below them sit two more tracks:

  • Camera: the move across the scene.
  • Light: shown when the scene uses a device frame.

Click the dimmed area on either side to step back out.

The essentials

  • Play / pause: Space.
  • Scrub: drag across the ruler. The playhead snaps to scene edges.
  • Cut: Scissors C and click a clip, or ⌘ B to split the selection at the playhead.
  • Trim: Q and W pull the selection's in and out point to the playhead.
  • Zoom time: ⌘ Scroll or the slider next to Play. ⇧ Scroll moves along the timeline, ⇧ Z fits everything to view.