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Chapter 4

Using the Timeline

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When you select an object, the color changes to a darker shade and the name of the
object turns white. When the Timeline is in Filmstrip mode, the filmstrip frames are
highlighted with a white border. See “

Specifying the Track Display

” on page 281 for

more information on how to set different Timeline view modes.

Item

How it appears

Description

Layer

A blue bar. When a layer contains
multiple objects, it displays three lines
and a value indicating the number of
items for that section of the layer.

Image Objects
(video, stills, shapes, and text)

A blue bar appears for image objects.

Masks

A gray bar appears for mask objects.

Behaviors and Filters

A thin purple bar appears for filters and
behaviors.

Keyframes

Blue diamonds appear in a thin bar
beneath the object that is keyframed.

Audio

A green bar appears for audio items,
and displays the audio waveform.

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