The purpose of the Workspace is working with your projects. Here you can create, edit, add different effects to your project. The Workspace could be represented in two views:

• Storyboard view used to add clips and Transitions to the Workspace

  and

• Timeline view that is used when you add different effects - Audio Mixing, Video Effects, Text Overlay and Video Overlay - to your video.

Storyboard View

The storyboard view is default view for workspace. It has a storyboard menu and storyboard space itself where you can change the order of clips in your project. To add clips to the workspace simply drag them from Media Library and drop to the necessary place in the workspace. To start playing your project from the specific object (clip or transition) just double click at the object. To play the whole movie click Play button in Main Preview.

In the table below you can find the description of storyboard menu buttons.

Button	Name	Description
	Preview Storyboard	Use this button to start previewing from the selected storyitem (without audio).
	Stop Preview	Use this button to stop previewing the selected storyitem.
	Duplicate Storyitem	Use this button to duplicate the selected storyitem.
	Delete Storyitem	Use this button to delete the selected clip or to clear transition.
	Show Property	Use this button to see the properties of the selected object.
	Show Multitrim Window	Use this button to open Multiple Trim window to split the video at the Storyboard into scenes or to merge scenes in the selected video. Note: this button is only enabled in case you select video clip at the Storyboard.
	Undo Storyboard Operation	Use this button to undo the storyboard operation.
	Redo Storyboard Operation	Use this button to redo the storyboard operation.
	Move to the right	Use this button to move the selected object to the right.
	Move to the left	Use this button to move the selected object to the left.
	Show Help	Use this button to run AVS Video Editor Help file.

You can find a Main Preview menu in the right part of a storyboard menu. To open Main Preview window please use Show/Hide Preview button.

Note: Main Preview is intended for previewing the whole project with audio and all of the effects and changes you made.

Button Description Use this button to playback preview. Use this button to pause preview. Use this button to stop preview. Use this button to go to the next clip Use this button to go to the previous clip Use this button to close Main Preview window.

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Timeline View

The Timeline view allows you to achieve accuracy and precision in applying effects and editing your clips.

AVS Video Editor allows you to apply one or several effects to your media file. For details on specific effect, please refer to respective chapters. You can create transitions between two adjacent clips. The time is displayed as hours:minutes:seconds.hundredths of a second (h:mm:ss.hs).

In the table below you can find the description of timeline menu buttons.

Button	Name	Description
	Preview Video Effects	Use this button to start previewing video effects (without audio).
	Stop Preview	Use this button to stop previewing video effects.
	Duplicate Video Effect	Use this button to duplicate video effect.
	Delete Video Effect	Use this button to delete video effect.
	Split/Delete Selected Area	Use this button to split a clip at the cursor position or to delete the selected area. Note: splitting is a storyboard operation. You will be able to undo this operation in storyboard mode.
	Undo	Use this button to undo last operation.
	Redo	Use this button to redo last operation.
	Move up line	Use this button to move up the selected video effect.
	Move down line	Use this button to move down the selected video effects.
	Show Help	Use this button to run AVS Video Editor Help file.
	Zoom In	Use this button to zoom selection in.
	Zoom Out	Use this button to zoom selection out.
	100% View	Use this button to set 100% view of selection.

The Timeline view displays all the possible editing options simultaneously. You can see the Audio Mixing, Video Effects, Text Overlay and Video Overlay used to edit your video clip. To expand any effect applied to the video you need to press the '+' button near it, to collapse it press the '-' button. You can also lock the editing line to prevent changes to it pressing the Lock button. To allow the further changes you will need to press this button, that will have now the following appearance , once again.

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