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The Movie Window
The Movie Window, where you build your movie from the raw materials in the Album, occupies the bottom half of the screen.
The Movie Window title bar contains several important controls and displays. See the following image:
Split clip/scene button – the razorblade
Click this button to split the currently-selected clip in the Movie Window, or the currently-selected scene in the Album.
No information is lost. If the item is an Album scene, it is split at the indicated point into two shorter scenes. If the item is a clip in the Movie Window, it is duplicated and automatically trimmed to the split point.
Splitting a clip: The placement of the edit line in the original clip determines the split point. When you apply the razorblade tool, Pinnacle VideoSpin duplicates the clip and trims away the portion after the split point in the first copy and up to the split point in the second.
Delete Clip button – the trashcan
This button deletes the currently-selected content in any of the Movie Window views. By default, when video clips on the video track of your project are deleted in any view, the gap in your movie that would otherwise be created by the deletion is automatically closed up, and clips on other tracks are removed or shortened as required to keep everything in sync.
On the main video track, Ctrl+Delete leaves a gap when the clip is removed, while on the other tracks, the gap on the track is closed up. In neither case are other tracks affected.
Positioning: edit line, scrubbers
The current position is the frame showing in the Player when you are working with a clip in the Movie Window. In the Timeline, it is indicated by the edit line. The current position can be changed by moving either the Timeline scrubber (to which the edit line is attached) or the Player scrubber.
