Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 93)

• Play Around Current Frame (Backslash): Plays the selected clip “around” the current
playhead position. When you click this button, the playback begins before the playhead
position based on the value in the Preview Pre-roll field in the Editing tab of the User
Preferences window. Playback continues through the original position of the playhead,
and then continues for the amount of time set in the Preview Post-roll field in User
Preferences. When you stop playback, the playhead jumps back to its original position.
For more information, see
“Choosing Settings and Preferences.”
• Go to Previous Edit (Up Arrow) and Go to Next Edit (Down Arrow): When you have a Browser
clip open in the Viewer, these controls navigate between the In, Out, and Media Start
and End points of the clip. When you have a sequence open, these buttons let you
navigate between sequence edit points; sequence In and Out points are skipped over.
Playhead Controls in the Viewer
The playhead lets you navigate through and locate different parts of a clip quickly and
easily.
Inactive video
Scrubber bar
Playhead
Jog control Shuttle control
Playhead and Scrubber Bar in the Viewer
The playhead shows the location of the currently displayed frame within the current clip.
The scrubber bar runs along the entire width of the Viewer, below the video image. To
scrub through a clip, drag the playhead across the scrubber bar. You can click anywhere
in the scrubber bar to instantly move the playhead to that location.
The playhead’s movement in the scrubber bar is affected by whether “snapping” is turned
on. When snapping is on, the playhead “snaps,” or moves directly, to any markers, In
points, or Out points in the scrubber bar when it gets close to them. (To turn snapping
on or off, choose View > Snapping, or press the N key.)
To move the playhead to the next In or Out point, or Media End
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Press the Down Arrow key.
To move the playhead to the previous In or Out point, or Media Start
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Press the Up Arrow key.
To move the playhead to the beginning of your clip
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Press Home on your keyboard.
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