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OpenShot's time-line is organized much like the Layers in Gimp or Photoshop. The bottom layer (or track) is the background, and the rest of the tracks stack on top. The top-most layer will cover up the tracks below it, unless of course, there are transparent or alpha'ed areas, in which the lower tracks will show through. A popular use of this technique would be to overlay a watermark on top of a video.

Here is a screenshot of a simple 4 track video project, in which the top 3 layers are being composited with the background layer, to create an overlay / watermark effect:

(Click the image for a larger version)

We have also added right-click context menus to our tracks and clips, which enable you to insert tracks above / below another track, remove tracks, re-order tracks, and remove clips from a track.

If you are interested in contributing to OpenShot, and would like to evaluate the program, I have added a very detailed list of steps in the README file to build the MLT framework and generate the Python bindings. To download the source code, click here and follow the directions.