Identifying the Status of Timeline Elements

When you apply soft effects to timeline elements, colour bars appear at the top of the elements to show the process and lock status.

As you create timeline effects, you may need to process if the effect is complex or involves many layers.

NoteComplex vertical edits that involve many layers or soft effects may require processing for real-time preview. If this occurs, black frames might be played back, or, in the viewport, frames might be dropped in order to maintain sync.

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(a) Unprocessed element (b) Processed element (c) Partially processed element (d) Locked element (e) Locked element with invalidated media (f) Compacted element

Colour of Bar	Description
Black	Element is processed.
Solid and dotted black	Element is partially processed. Dotted line indicates how much of the element is unprocessed.
White	Element requires processing.
Grey	Element is processed and locked.
Dotted grey	Element is partially processed and locked.
Yellow	A locked effect with invalidated media.
Dotted yellow	Modified media under a partially processed locked element.
Red	Element contains a compact soft effect.
Orange	Element is proxy processed.
Dotted orange	A partially processed proxy.
Dotted black and white	Element is sent to Burn.
Black and white checkered	Missing information; that is, processing submitted to Burn is incomplete.