What the Timeline Filter tries to do is to turn FIVE into an NLE by allowing you to combine processing chains. You can process segments individually, then combine them at the end of your work before writing out the finished results.
Timeline works a bit like Concatenate. The difference being that Concatenate works as a part of the "conversion" process and Timeline works as part of the processing tasks. With Concatenate, you get what you get. With Timeline, you can fine tune the results by selecting specific processing chains as well as the processing steps within those chains.
Timeline is part of the Link filter group. Like the other filters in that group, it doesn't support audio. If you're wondering where your audio track is after using the Timeline, Multiview, or Video Mixer filters, you're likely in North America. It seems, from observing the development of FIVE from here (the western US) that no one else in the world has to deal with audio in multimedia files.
The Filter Settings for the Timeline Filter are pretty simple. One thing to note, when you choose it, the settings will include all your project's processing chains. You'll want to sort through the Inputs and Remove any chains that don't belong (click on the Input to remove and click on the Remove button).
Once combined, write the resulting file out to your desired codec / container.
If your files do have an audio track, and you want the results to also have the audio track, you'll need to strip out the audio first (part of the Convert DVR functionality). Once you've performed your processing / analysis tasks, you'll want to re-combine the audio and video segments in an NLE like Vegas or PremierePro.
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