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title: "offsetClips"
canonical: "https://help.vicon.com/space/Shogun110/13075735/offsetClips"
format: markdown
---
# Description

Enables you to offset clips in time by a specified number of frames.

The offset is additive, that is, it will add the offset to the existing value of the clip's **Clip_Offset** attribute.

## Functional area

Data manipulators

# Command syntax

## Syntax

|  |
| --- |
| `offsetClips "offset timecode" ["clip" ...."clip"]` |

### Arguments

| **Name** | **Type** | **Required** | **Comments** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `offset timecode`  
`
` | integer | yes | The number of frames to offset the clip by |
| `clip` | string | no | The clip(s) to offset. May specify multiple clips by name or specify an array of clips. If no clips are specified, then the active clip is offset. |

### Flags

None

## Return value

void

## Examples

```plaintext
// Offset the active clip 50 frames back in time
offsetClips -50;
```

> Macro (scroll-pagebreak)

# Additional information

## Related commands

- [addLayer](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Shogun110/pages/13075119)
- [addToClip](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Shogun110/pages/13075137)
- [copyClip](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Shogun110/pages/13075211)
- [cropClip](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Shogun110/pages/13075279)
- [deleteClipData](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Shogun110/pages/13075297)
- [flatten](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Shogun110/pages/13075373)
- [getActiveClip](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Shogun110/pages/13075381)
- [getActiveLayer](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Shogun110/pages/13075383)
- [getClips](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Shogun110/pages/13075417)
- [moveClip](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Shogun110/pages/13075725)
- [removeFromClip](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Shogun110/pages/13075805)
- [removeLayer](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Shogun110/pages/13075807)
- [resetClip](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Shogun110/pages/13075829)
- [selectClipObjects](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Shogun110/pages/13075871)
- [setActiveClip](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Shogun110/pages/13075907)
- [setActiveLayer](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Shogun110/pages/13075909)
- [tileClips](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Shogun110/pages/13076135)