Working with Clips

A Clip is any individual piece of media—video, audio, image, or generated graphic—that sits on your timeline.

Selecting and Moving Clips

  • Selecting a single clip: Click it once with the Selection Tool (A). It will highlight to indicate it is selected.
  • Selecting multiple clips: Click and drag a marquee box over multiple clips, or hold Ctrl (Windows) / Cmd (macOS) and click individual clips to add them to your selection.
  • Moving clips: Click and drag a selected clip left or right to change its timing, or up and down to move it between tracks.

Linked Selection

When you import a standard video file (like a camera recording), it usually contains both video and audio. When you drag it onto the timeline, ORAPHIM places the video on a V track and the audio on an A track.

By default, these two clips are Linked.

  • If you click the video clip, the audio clip is automatically selected as well.
  • If you trim or delete the video, the audio is trimmed or deleted in exactly the same way, preventing them from falling out of sync.

Unlinking Clips

Sometimes you want to delete the audio of a clip (e.g., you are making a music video and only want the visual).

  1. Select the clip.
  2. Right-click and choose Link Clips to uncheck the option, or press Ctrl+Alt+L (Windows) / Cmd+Option+L (macOS).
  3. Click away to deselect, then click just the audio portion. You can now delete it independently.

Note: You can also temporarily override linking by holding Alt (Windows) or Option (macOS) while clicking a clip.

Out of Sync Indicators

If you unlink a video and audio clip, slide one of them a few frames, and then re-link them (or if you just accidentally bumped one with the override shortcut), ORAPHIM will display a red box on the clip indicating how far out of sync it is (e.g., +14 or -5 frames).

This is a critical warning that lipsync will not match. To fix it, you can right-click the red box and select Move into Sync.

Clip Colors

To help visually organize a complex timeline, you can assign custom colors to specific clips.

  1. Right-click a clip (or multiple selected clips).
  2. Navigate to Clip Color and select a color (e.g., Orange, Teal, Purple).
  3. Workflow Tip: Color code your timeline by category. Make all interviews Blue, all B-roll Green, and all graphics Yellow. This allows you to understand the structure of a 20-minute sequence at a single glance.