The timeline shows your session's structure visually and lets you navigate by lap or note.
The Timeline Widget
The timeline runs below the video player in Review Mode. It shows:
- Lap markers — vertical lines marking the start of each lap.
- Note markers — dots at positions where a timestamped note exists.
- Playhead — your current position in the video.
Click anywhere on the timeline to seek to that position. Drag the playhead to scrub.
Lap Markers
Lap markers divide your video into laps.
Adding a Lap Marker
| Action | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| Insert lap marker at playhead | Ctrl+L |
| Insert sector split at playhead | Ctrl+Shift+L |
| Move selected marker to playhead | Ctrl+Shift+Enter |
Tip: To mark laps accurately, play through the footage and press Ctrl+L at the moment the car crosses the start/finish line.
Editing Markers
Right-click a marker on the timeline to rename, move, or delete it.
Generating Lap Markers from Imported Data
If you've imported lap data for the session (from an AiM file, CSV, or VBox export), you can place lap markers automatically instead of pressing Ctrl+L for each lap. There are two ways in:
- Advanced bar button in Review Mode — the lap icon, "Generate lap markers from imported session data…".
- Right-click a video → Markers → "Sync lap markers from AiM…" (this works for any imported provider, not only AiM).
Either way you pick an anchor lap and line the playhead up to where that lap crosses start/finish in the video; the rest of the laps are placed automatically from the imported lap times.
Multiple stints. If the session has more than one stint (for example, a morning and an afternoon run in one video), generate one stint at a time — pick the stint, anchor its lap, and place it. Generating a second stint adds its markers; it does not remove the first stint's. Re-generating a stint replaces only that stint's lap markers. Your hand-placed note markers are always kept.
Chapters
Chapters are named bookmarks within the video, useful for publishing to YouTube.
| Action | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| Quick-add chapter at playhead | Ctrl+B |
| Add chapter with title prompt | Ctrl+Shift+B |
Chapters are included in the YouTube video description when you publish. See Publish a Video.
Navigating by Note
Timestamped notes appear as dots on the timeline. Click a note dot to jump to that position and highlight the note in the notes panel.
You can also navigate notes from the notes panel — click any timestamp in the notes text to seek the video.
Video Overlays (On-Screen Display)
Review Mode can draw lap times, sector times, and notes directly on top of the video as it plays — handy for reviewing footage or recording a screen capture.
Turn these on in Settings → Review with the checkboxes:
- Show overlay: Laptimes
- Show overlay: Sector Times
- Show overlay: Notes
When Notes is on, each timestamped note appears over the video at its marker position and stays for a few seconds before fading.
Stacked notes
If a note is still showing when the next note appears, they stack rather than one replacing the other:
- Notes stack oldest on top, newest on the bottom (the lap-time line, if shown,
stays on top).
- Up to 3 notes show at once. If more than three are active, the newest three
are kept — as a new note appears, the oldest drops off the top, so the stack scrolls upward.
These overlays work the same in the standalone video player.
Undo / Redo
| Action | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| Undo marker edit | Ctrl+Z |
| Redo | Ctrl+Y or Ctrl+Shift+Z |