Adding a Summary clip for tracks

In the Story window, you can insert multiple tracks and add audio, animation, or video clips to each track. You can insert a folder and group multiple tracks within it. If there are many clips within a folder, then it is time consuming to select and move each clip along the timeline. To avoid this, the Summary Clips On/Off tool in the Story toolbar allows you to display a summary clip, as part of the folder track. By moving the summary clip, you can move all the clips in a folder.

To display the summary clip, click the Summary Clips On/Off icon from the Story toolbar. The summary clip appears at the top of all clips in the folder.

Story window A. Summary Clips On/Off icon B. Summary clip C. Folder D. Tracks and clips within the folder

Using the summary clip, you can:

• Drag all clips in a folder along the timeline.
• Scale the summary clip in time. When you scale the summary clip, all the clips within the folder also scale accordingly in time. To scale the summary clip, click the Loop/Scale Clips icon () in the Story toolbar to turn on the scale mode ().
  NoteCurrently, you can only scale all clips and cannot loop them.
• Razor or cut up one or all clips, which lie along the current transport control time, within the folder. To do this, select the summary clip and move the timeline to the position where you want to razor the clip(s). Click the Razor icon from the Story toolbar.
  

  Story window A. Razor icon B. Position of timeline where the clips are razored C. Summary clip is not razored

  NoteThe Razor tool cuts only the clips within a folder. It does not affect the summary clip.
  TipPress Ctrl+Z to undo the actions performed in the Story window.

The name of summary clip is same as the name of the folder track. Right-click on the folder track or the summary clip, and select Rename from the contextual menu to rename both the folder track and summary clip. The name of the summary clip is helpful to know the summary of a folder, when you minimize the folder.

Story window A. Names of summary clip and folder are same B. Folder is minimized

If you delete the summary clip, then the folder and the clips within it are deleted. To delete the summary clip, right-click on it and select Delete from the contextual menu.