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</div><div class="twikiRevInfo"><span class="twikiGrayText"><span class="twikiToolbarElem">Cinelerra.InsertionPoint</span><span class="twikiToolbarElem">r1.4 - 23 Jun 2004 - 16:20 - <a class="twikiLink" href="../Main/AndrazTori">AndrazTori</a></span><span class="twikiToolbarElem"><a href="#TopicEnd">topic&nbsp;end</a></span></span></div></div>
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<h3><a name="The_Insertion_Point"> </a><a name="The_Insertion_Point_"> </a> The <a class="twikiLink" href="InsertionPoint">Insertion Point</a> </h3>
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The insertion point is the flasing hairline mark that verticaly spawns the <a class="twikiLink" href="MediaTrack">MediaTracks</a> on the <a class="twikiLink" href="MainProgram">MainProgram</a> window. Analogous to the cursor on your word processor, the insertion point marks the place on the timeline where the next activitie on the program starts. It is the the starting point for playback, pasting &amp; rendering operations.
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The insertion point is normally moved by clicking inside the timebar. Any region of the timebar not obscured by <a class="twikiLink" href="LabelControl">LabelControls</a> and <a class="twikiLink" href="InOutPoint">InOutPoints</a> is a hotspot for repositioning the insertion point.
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<img src="../../../pub/Cinelerra/CinelerraImages/program_busy.png" alt="program_busy.png" /> <br>
<strong><em>The insertion point on the main program</em></strong> <em>(Marked by the vertical hair-line at the</em> <strong>00:00.500</strong> <em>point.)</em>
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The insertion point also can be moved by clicking in the timeline itself, but not always. The insertion point has two modes of operation:
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<li> <a class="twikiLink" href="CutAndPasteEditing">cut and paste mode</a>
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The mode of operation is determined by selecting the <img src="../../../pub/Cinelerra/CinelerraImages/button_arrow.png" /> <strong>arrow</strong> or the <img src="../../../pub/Cinelerra/CinelerraImages/button_bar.png" /> <strong>i-beam</strong> in the buttonbar. 
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<h4><a name="The_editing_mode_buttons"> </a> The editing mode buttons </h4>
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If the <img src="../../../pub/Cinelerra/CinelerraImages/button_arrow.png" /> <strong>arrow</strong> is highlighted it enables <a class="twikiLink" href="DragAndDropEditing">drag and drop mode</a>. In <a class="twikiLink" href="DragAndDropEditing">drag and drop mode</a>, clicking in the timeline doesn't reposition the insertion point. Instead it selects an entire edit. Dragging in the timeline repositions the edit, snapping it to other edit boundaries. This is normally useful for <a class="twikiLink" href="DragAndDropEditing">reordering audio playlists and moving effects</a> around.
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If the <img src="../../../pub/Cinelerra/CinelerraImages/button_bar.png" /> <strong>i-beam</strong> is highlighted it enables <a class="twikiLink" href="CutAndPasteEditing">cut and paste mode</a>. In <a class="twikiLink" href="CutAndPasteEditing">cut and paste mode</a> clicking in the timeline repositions the insertion point. Dragging in the timeline highlights a region. The highlighted region becomes the playback range during the next playback operation, the rendered range during the next render operation, and the region affected by cut and paste operations.
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<li> <img src="../../../pub/Cinelerra/CinelerraImages/program_highlight.png" alt="program_highlight.png" /> <br> <em>tracks with highlighted area (shown inside the green area)</em>
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<li> <strong>Shift-clicking</strong> in the timeline extends the highlighted region.
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<li> <strong>Double-clicking</strong> in the timeline selects the entire edit the cursor is over.
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It should be noted that when moving the insertion point and selecting regions, the positions are either aligned to frames or aligned to samples. When editing video you'll want to align to frames. When editing audio you'll want to align to samples. This is set in <a class="twikiLink" href="SettingsMenu">SettingsMenu</a> <strong>-&gt;align cursor on frames</strong>.
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-- <a class="twikiLink" href="../Main/AlexFerrer">AlexFerrer</a> - 04 Jan 2004 <strong><em>from <a class="twikiLink" href="SecretsOfCinelerra">SecretsOfCinelerra</a></em></strong>
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If the highlighted region is the region affected by cut and paste operations, how do I cut and paste in drag and drop mode? 
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<li> In this case you need to set <a class="twikiLink" href="InOutPoint">InOutPoints</a> to define an affected region. 
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Sometimes when I cut &amp; paste everything after the insertion point moves to the right, and sometims not.. what gives?
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