Video View

Orbit Pro

The Video View requires Orbit Pro.

The Video View is where you build a picture reference to play alongside your ADM audio — importing clips, adding titles and graphics, and arranging them on a video track that stays locked to the same timeline as your audio.

Getting there

The icon rail on the far left switches between Orbit's view modes — Overview, Timeline View, Video View, and Monitor View. Click the video-camera icon to switch into this view.

Layout

• Left sidebar — three tabs for what you can add to the project:
  • Video Clips — imported video files, each showing its duration, frame rate, resolution, and how many trimmed regions it's been split into. + Add Video to Project imports a new clip.
  • Text — text titles you can drop onto the video track.
  • Graphics — image/graphic overlays.
  • A Programme panel, shown below Add Video to Project once you've imported a clip, sets the project's frame rate, resolution, and aspect ratio (or leaves them on Auto to follow the imported footage).
• Preview canvas — the centre of the window, showing the video frame at the current playhead position with on-canvas transform handles when a clip, title, or graphic is selected. A quality picker in the viewer toolbar chooses Better Performance (a 1080 proxy, the default) or Better Quality (full resolution); an Optimizing media / Optimizing badge with a percentage appears while Orbit prepares footage in the background for smooth scrubbing.
• Right-hand inspector — appears when something is selected, with properties specific to what you clicked. For a text title: its text content, font, size, style, colour, alignment, wrap/outline/shadow/background options, start/end time and fade in/out, plus position and scale transforms.
• Video timeline — beneath the preview, the zoom and editing toolbar (as in the Timeline View, with the Razor and Trim tools enabled here), then up to eight video lanes for clips, titles, and graphics, above a spatial-waveform audio reference. Trim, move, and layer video elements the same way you'd work with audio regions.

See also

• Video and Video Editing — picture playback synchronised to the ADM timeline and video editing fundamentals.
• Timeline View — the audio timeline this view shares its ruler, zoom, and transport with.
• Overview — where the view-mode icon rail lives alongside the other views.