Previewing in the Storyboard

Once you are happy with the Sequence, you'll want to preview it so that you can see if any changes need to be made.

To play a Storyboard Sequence

1.	Do one of the following: Using the left mouse button, drag a lasso around all the clips to highlight them (Figure 5.14). Figure 5.14. Dragging a lasso around the clips will mark each one with a golden frame. This means all the clips have been selected… Right-click the last clip in the pile and choose Select All Overlapping to highlight all the clips (Figure 5.15). Figure 5.15. … or you can right-click the last clip in the pile and choose Select All Overlapping to highlight all the clips.
2.	Once the clips are selected, right-click the last clip in the sequence (don't click any of the others) and select Preview from the pop-up menu (Figure 5.16). Figure 5.16. Previewing a selection requires you just to right-click the last clip in the pile and choose Preview from the pop-up menu.
3.	Once the Clip Viewer is displayed (Figure 5.17), press the spacebar or press the Play button to play the sequence back from beginning to end. If the playback order is not correct, read on. Figure 5.17. The Clip Viewer displayed here has been customized with extra buttons to increase its functionality.

Playback order

The order in which Liquid Edition plays the Storyboard elements is determined by the order in which you click them.

• The last element clicked is the last one played back.

• The first one clicked is the first one played back.

In Figure 5.18, you can see that the Storyboard element called Viewpoint has been clicked last and is now on top of the others. The Viewpoint clip will now play last after the Retreat clip, thus ruining the play order.

Figure 5.18. In this example, the middle clip (Viewpoint) has been clicked last and is now on top of the pile.

Tip

• If one of your clips plays out of sequence, you can reassemble the order by clicking each element once in turn from the first to the last.