Mode Bar

The Mode Bar runs down the left edge of the window in Orbit and Orbit Pro. It's the quickest way to switch how you're looking at a file — try a different mode and settle on the one that suits you or the content you're working with.

The modes

Top to bottom, the bar holds four view modes:

• Overview — the default working layout: Scene, Activity, and the Inspect sidebar in one view. The right mode for a QC pass.
• Timeline (Pro) — the multichannel and spatial waveform timeline, laid out for scrubbing and spotting across the whole programme.
• Video (Pro) — audio synced to picture, with the multi-lane video timeline.
• Monitor (Pro) — the full meter bridge and monitoring surface.

Pinned separately at the bottom is Settings — Orbit's preferences, kept out of the mode stack because it's not a way of viewing the file.

Clicking an icon switches the whole main view instantly, keeping your loaded file, playhead, and sidebar state in place:

More modes to come

The Mode Bar is where new ways of working with a file will appear. Expect the list to grow in future releases.

Availability

Only Overview is available in Orbit Standard — it's the inspection-and-verification edition, and Overview is the mode built for that.

Timeline, Video, and Monitor are Orbit Pro modes. In Standard they appear disabled in the bar; upgrading to Pro lights them up.

See also

• Overview — the default mode, available in every edition.
• Timeline View, Video View, Monitor View — the Pro modes.
• Preferences — what Settings opens.