you can view virtual clips in your project at a glance, because in galleries they have a red border, and on timelines they are red bars.
virtual clips in gallery and timeline are especially useful when you are planning to batch recapture the media in your project. allowing clips to go virtual means that your project can still be opened if you have deleted all the media from your video drives before recapturing it.
virtual clips can be dragged to the timeline and then edited either there or in the trim window, but cannot be loaded into the trim window directly from the gallery.
creating a virtual clip
right click in the gallery and select virtual clip from the menu. this window appears:
1. type a name for the new clip and then use the browse button to select a location for it. the new clip's name and path appear in the name window when you are done.
2. select a duration for your new clip in seconds or frames. when you place the clip on the timeline, this is the length it will have. you can edit the clip on the timeline, but this is the duration it will have when you use batch recapture to acquire its replacement clip, unless you edit it in the batch list later.
3. if you wish to have audio as part of your clip, place a check mark in the audio box. you can alter settings for clip audio, but you cannot change the numbers in the x and y (width and height) boxes for the video.
4. click the add to gallery button to save the clip to the gallery. the window stays open so you can create other virtual clips.
click the exit button to close the window without saving the currently selected parameters as a new virtual clip.