Mode Bar

The Mode Bar runs down the left edge of the window in Orbit and Orbit Pro. It's the quickest way to switch how you're looking at a file — try a different mode and settle on the one that suits you or the content you're working with.

The modes

Top to bottom, the bar holds four view modes:

• Overview — the default working layout: Scene, Activity, and the Inspect sidebar in one view. The right mode for a QC pass.
• Timeline (Pro) — the full-height multi-track timeline (All Tracks / Inspect), with a row per bed channel and object, laid out for scrubbing and spotting across the whole programme.
• Video (Pro) — audio synced to picture, with the multi-lane video timeline.
• Monitor (Pro) — per-speaker solo and mute plus Smart and Custom speaker groups, over top-down, side and 3D views of your speaker layout. (The meters live in the footer on every page.)

Pinned separately at the bottom is the gear button (tooltip Preferences), which opens Preferences — kept out of the mode stack because it's not a way of viewing the file.

Clicking an icon switches the whole main view instantly, keeping your loaded file and playhead in place. The Video page swaps the left sidebar for the video bin (Video Clips / Text / Graphics); the other pages share the same Inspect sidebar:

More modes to come

The Mode Bar is where new ways of working with a file will appear. Expect the list to grow in future releases.

Availability

Only Overview is available in Orbit Standard — it's the inspection-and-verification edition, and Overview is the mode built for that.

Timeline, Video, and Monitor are Orbit Pro modes. In Standard they appear dimmed with an orange lock badge (tooltip e.g. Timeline (Pro)); clicking one opens an upgrade prompt. Upgrading to Pro unlocks them.

See also

• Overview — the default mode, available in every edition.
• Timeline View, Video View, Monitor View — the Pro modes.
• Preferences — what the gear button opens.