---
title: "offsetClips"
canonical: "https://help.vicon.com/space/ShogunPost119/850464516/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/ShogunPost119/pages/850462640)
- [addToClip](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunPost119/pages/850462727)
- [copyClip](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunPost119/pages/850463104)
- [cropClip](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunPost119/pages/850463418)
- [deleteClipData](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunPost119/pages/850463505)
- [flatten](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunPost119/pages/850463846)
- [getActiveClip](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunPost119/pages/850463878)
- [getActiveLayer](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunPost119/pages/850463886)
- [getClips](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunPost119/pages/850464022)
- [moveClip](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunPost119/pages/850464434)
- [removeFromClip](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunPost119/pages/850464829)
- [removeLayer](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunPost119/pages/850464837)
- [resetClip](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunPost119/pages/850464961)
- [selectClipObjects](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunPost119/pages/850468216)
- [setActiveClip](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunPost119/pages/850465195)
- [setActiveLayer](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunPost119/pages/850465210)
- [tileClips](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunPost119/pages/850466287)