Introduction to TimeBolt's Multi-Track Editor

TimeBolt's Multi-Track Editor is a purpose-built workspace for editing projects that span multiple video and audio files at once. Where a traditional single-file workflow falls short — multi-camera shoots, podcasts, interviews, and any recording session where the same event is captured across several devices — the Multi-Track Editor steps in. It brings all of your media together on a single timeline, aligns it, automatically removes silence and dead air, and hands you back a finished result, all with minimal manual effort.

Bring Your Media Together

Everything starts with importing your files. Each video or audio file you add — whether through the "Add Video / Audio Files As Tracks" button or by simply dragging and dropping files into the window — is placed on its own dedicated track. Tracks are clearly labeled by type, with the prefix V for video and A for audio, and stacked top to bottom in the order they were added. You're never locked into that initial arrangement: dedicated Up and Down arrows on each track let you reorder them at any time, with track labels automatically renumbering to reflect the new layout.

Align Everything Perfectly

Multi-device recordings rarely start at the same instant, so the Multi-Track Editor gives you two ways to line your tracks up. For manual control, every track has a "Set Track Position" button that lets you offset it along the timeline by a precise number of seconds — positive or negative — with the editor automatically normalizing positions so the earliest track always begins at zero while the relative spacing between tracks is preserved.

For recordings that share the same audio signature — say, a video with rough camera-microphone audio paired with a clean external recording of the same session — the "Synchronize Tracks" button does the work for you. One click analyzes the audio across all tracks in the project and aligns them perfectly, eliminating tedious manual matching.

Let Silence Detection Do the Cutting

At the heart of the Multi-Track Editor is Silence Detection: the automatic analysis of your audio to create cuts that remove silence and dead air. Detection is run deliberately — you choose the strategy that fits your project, then click "Run Silence Detection":

• Select Specific Track is built for projects anchored by a single master audio file. Cuts are detected on the master track and duplicated across every other track, keeping the entire project perfectly aligned.
• Each Track Independently suits camera-switching projects like podcasts and interviews, where each speaker's track is cut on its own. On export, the timeline naturally jumps to whichever speaker is talking.
• Enabling the "Duplicate Detection Across Tracks?" variant creates a union of all cuts across tracks — ideal for side-by-side layouts where every speaker must stay in frame whenever anyone is talking.

And if you'd rather not tune thresholds by hand, the "Set Best Filter Below Sound Level" button lets TimeBolt determine the optimal silence threshold for you.

Finish Anywhere

When your timeline is ready, the Multi-Track Editor adapts to your workflow. Export directly to a finished video or audio file, with the output type chosen automatically based on your tracks. Or, if TimeBolt is one step in a larger pipeline, export a fully editable timeline — as XML for Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, or FCPXML for Final Cut Pro — and carry your cuts straight into your editor of choice for color grading, effects, and final polish.

From import to export, the Multi-Track Editor is designed around one idea: let TimeBolt handle the repetitive, time-consuming work of syncing and cutting, so you can focus on the creative decisions that actually need you.