You can use clip history to access modules and soft effects that have been used to create a clip or element. You can:

• View the clip history of a selected Source Area clip.
• Modify an element with clip history in its last module or soft effect.
• View the clip history of a selected Record Area clip or element, and load sources and intermediates from the clip history back into any of the modules or soft effect editors that you used to create the clip. Once you load the source or intermediate into a module or soft effect editor, you can adjust settings to modify the output. You can modify the clip at any point in its history.

You can view the clip history from History or Large History view. History view takes up less space in the user interface. However, when you have a clip history that contains multiple sources and intermediates, you may not be able to see all of them in History view. To see more of the clip history, switch to Large History view. With either option selected, you can view clip history as a list or schematic.

If you modify and then render an intermediate that is part of a clip history, all the clip history elements after the rendered event are also rendered. Additionally, all instances of the intermediate used in the clip history are modified. If the same intermediate appears in another clip history, however, it is not modified — once you modify an intermediate in a clip history, any copies you made of the intermediate in other clip histories are discrete.

The following illustration shows some significant components of clip history.