Timeline
Introduction
Timeline is probably the most important "tool" within Icareus Studio. It is the place where you make your video by combining videos, texts, audio clips, images and shapes.
Timeline has several track types that represent the "layers" of the video. The top track (which is text) is always above the lower tracks in your final video.
The tracks in order are:
- Text (each text will on its own track)
- Shapes
- Image
- Video
- Audio 1
- Audio 2
The final video output will include all of your media elements in all of your tracks.
The Timeline user interface
The user interface is divided to two parts:
1) Action and Utility buttons
2) Timeline Tracks
Timeline and Action and Effect buttons
Action/Effect and Utility buttons
Actions/Effects
There are 6 action/effect buttons:
- Add Text
- Add Shapes
- Cut
- Add Effects
- Change Volume
- Transitions
Add Text
Add Text button adds a new text track with text to the timeline. It opens the following modal to modify text properties.
Add Shapes
Add Shapes button adds a new shape to the timeline. There can be one shape visible at a time and all added shapes are placed on the same timeline track.
The shape settings can be adjusted in the modal that is opened from the button.
Cut
Cut functionality is used to cut your video or audio element on the timeline.
To cut the video you need to move the timeline indicator to the point you want to cut at and press cut -button. Studio cuts the video from that position and leaves both parts of the video/audio to the timeline.
Effects
Selecting a video element on the timeline and then clicking the "Add Effects" button opens the effects page:
Click "Select" below an effect to apply it to the selected video.
Effects are discussed in more detail on another Helpdesk page.
Change Volume
Selecting a video or audio element on the timeline and then clicking "Change Volume" opens this modal:
You can change how loud you want a part of the element to be - change the volume by adjusting the slider and the duration by entering the start and end times you want the effect to take place in.
00:00:00 is the start point of the video/audio element for the purposes of this effect. The end point can't be further than the element is long, i.e. you cannot add a 10s effect on a 5s video.
Transitions
A transition is an effect that can only be applied to the first of two touching video elements. It can be used to make the transition between those two videos smoother. More on that here.
Utility
There are 6 utility buttons:
- Undo
- Zoom Full
- Zoom Out
- Zoom In
- Move Left
- Move Right
- Delete Selected
Undo
Undo previous action.
Zoom Full
The timeline will zoom out or in so that all elements are visible within the boundaries of the window.
Zoom Out
Zoom out on the timeline.
Zoom In
Zoom in on the timeline.
Move Left
Move left on the timeline.
Move Right
Move right on the timeline.
Delete Selected
Deletes selected element. Only works when you have selected an element on the timeline.
Moving on timeline
In addition to the above utility buttons, you can move on the timeline by dragging it (=holding your left mouse key pressed while on it) left/right.
Timeline Tracks in Detail
Text
Supported Effects
Effects are not supported on Text elements
Text track becomes only visible when you add an Text element to your project with Add Text -button.
Each text is on its own track and you can define how long it is visible.
To edit your text you need to double click your text element on the timeline.
Shapes
Supported Effects
Effects are not supported on Shape elements
Shapes are added to your project with Add Shapes -button.
Each text is on its own track and you can define how long it is visible.
To edit your text you need to double click your text element on the timeline.
Image
Supported Effects
Effects are not supported on Image elements
Images are added to the timeline from Project Media Files by pressing the + -sign 
next to the Image.
There is one Image track where all your images are timed.
Image properties can be configured by double clicking the image in the timeline.
Video
Supported Effects
Brightness
Color Overlay
Fade In
Fade Out
Change Volume
Transitions
There is one video track, but you can add as many clips to it as needed.
In the video track you can see also what effects have been applied to each video item in the timeline. It is indicated on the top right corner of the item.
Editing the effects is by double clicking the timeline item, which opens a list of the effects applied to that item.
Moving the video clips on your timeline can be done by dragging them. Click with your mouse and keep the left mouse key pressed.
Audio 1 and Audio 2
Supported Effects
Change volume
Icareus Studio offers two audio tracks to combine e.g. speech and background music into your project. Audio tracks work the same way as video albeit having less support for all the effects.
Double clicking the timeline item opens the list of applied effects for that item.
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