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Flowblade HowTo
The Monitor Panel
In the default view, the top-right part of the windows is the Monitor panel. The monitor is used to view the working sequence in the timeline or the clip choosen from the Media panel. Two buttons are provided to switch from Display Timeline to Clip mode:
The keys in Monitor Panel
| Left / Right | Rewind / fast-forward by 1 frame |
|---|---|
| Shift+Left / Shift+Right | Rewind / fast-forward by 10 frames |
| I / O | Mark In and Out points for clip cut |
| Alt+I / Alt+O | Go to In or Out point |
| U | Insert the clip cutout at the end of the timeline |
| Y | Insert the clip cutout in the timeline before the clip under the playhead |
| T | Replace the clip selected in the timeline with the clip cutout from the Monitor. The cutout must be larger than the clip to be replaced. |
The Timeline
The keys in Timeline Panel
| Left / Right | Rewind / fast-forward by 1 frame |
|---|---|
| Shift+Left / Shift+Right | Rewind / fast-forward by 10 frames |
| Mouse center-click | Zoom fit |
| Mouse wheel | Zoom timeline in / out |
| Ctrl+Mouse wheel | Pan timeline left / right |
| X | Cut the clip at playhead |
How to add clips with fade-in/fade-out effects on both video and audio
- Click the Media panel in the top-center section of the window, right-click to load the raw videos into the panel.
- Double click the original video: it will be loaded into the Monitor (top-right section of the window).
- Play the video in the monitor and select the IN and OUT cut points using key I and O.
- Click the Append Clip button (or press the U key) to insert the selected clip into the timeline (the bottom-center part of the window).
- Repeat the above two steps to add all the required clips into the timeline.
- Add the fade-in/fade-out effect for both video and audio on each clip:
- Double-click the clip into the timeline: the Edit panel will be displayed in the top-center section.
- Using the + button at the bottom of the Edit panel add two effects:
- Fade ⇒ Fade to Black In/Out
- Audio ⇒ Volume
- The two effects will be listed into the Edit panel.
- Click the Hamburger menu button next to the Fade to Black In/Out filter and choose Open in Keyframe Tool.
- A graph of the filter will be displayed over the clip into the timeline. Here you can add handle points (Flowblade calls them keyframes) and move them to change the shape of the line. The fade-in effect is obtained with a line starting from zero and rising to 100 e.g. in 2 seconds. A fade-out is obtained with the line starting from 100 and going down to zero.
- Click anywhere on the timeline to close the Keyframe Tool.
- Similarly click the Hamburger button next the Volume and Open in Keyframe Tool to set the fade-in fade-out for the audio. Notice that normal volume is 0 dB and silence is -70 dB on the scale.
Removing unwanterd keyframes (handle points)
In the Keyframe Tool you may accidentally add a keyframe (handle point) that you want to remove. Close the Keyframe Tool clicking anywhere on the timeline and double click the clip so the Edit pane is shown. Here you can jump over each keyframe added to the filter using the buttons Previous keyframe and Next Keyframe. When you are over the unwanted one, click Delete Keyframe button (the minus).
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The Edit panel with two filters added: the video Fade to Black In/Out and the audio Volume:
The Keyframe Tool used on the Fade to Black In/Out filter and the audio Volume filter respectively:
