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• Click on the corresponding icon to open the Magnetic Timeline.

Turn on the Magnetic Timeline

Note:What if there are already video clips on the timeline?

In this case, if you still need to add video clips, the track will automatically move when you insert the video at a different location.

In the following figure, when you insert before existing video clips, current video clips and subsequence clips move backward.

Add Video Clips

Drag Within Different Tracks

You can drag and drop videos from your main track to other tracks as you like, and the videos in the main track will be automatically attached to the right place without any gap.

Note: The auxiliary lines are also present to help you better perceive and understand the editing process.

Drag Videos Within Different Tracks

Function Introduction

• Trim

You can either single-select a particular video track for editing, or you can select multiple tracks for editing at the same time, and the latter will increase or decrease in synchronization, depending on the amount of trim.

• Copy/Paste

1. If the video clip to be copied is from the main track, subsequent clips (if any) are moved backward at an even speed for pasting the new video clip.


Copy Videos on Main Track

Paste the Copied Video

2. If a video clip to be copied is not from the main track, the new clip is pasted above the selected clip.


Copy Videos not on Main Track

Paste Copied Video Clip
• Delete

When deleting, one thing to keep in mind is that videos attached to other video clips will be deleted along with them.

• Speed

Other than the above, Magnetic Timeline can improve the efficiency of your video editing in many other ways: adding transitions, applying templates, placing SRTs, and so on.

Conclusion

Filmora's Magnetic Timeline targets beginner editors and is designed to improve the efficiency of high-frequency editing functions through automatic attachment of track clips and linking of sub-track clips.