Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 629)

294 Part II Rough Editing
 Pan Keyframe button: The keyframe button to the right of the Pan slider places a
keyframe at the current playhead location on the pan overlay. You can add keyframes
to change pan settings over time.
 Pan keyframe navigation buttons: These buttons, to the left and right of the Pan
Keyframe button, allow you to move the playhead forward or backward from one
keyframe on the pan overlay to the next. The left button moves the playhead to the
next keyframe to the left of the playhead’s current position, and the right button
moves the playhead to the next keyframe to the right.
 Reset button: This button deletes all marked keyframes on both the level overlay and the
pan overlay of the currently selected audio track, and resets the level and pan values to
their original captured states (0 dB for the audio level, and –1 for the pan level).
 Drag hand: Use this to drag the current audio clip to the Canvas, the Timeline, or the
Browser. This control is necessary because clicking the waveform itself moves the
playhead to the frame on which you clicked.
 Ruler: When you’re looking at the contents of an audio tab in the Viewer, you’ll see
two playheads, both of which are locked together. The normal Viewer playhead is
located in the scrubber bar below the waveform display area, but there’s also a
second playhead within the waveform display area.
The ruler above the waveform display area shows the currently displayed range of
your clip. If you zoom all the way out (press Shift-Z), this ruler shows the clip from its
start point to its end point, and the movement of the Viewer playhead in the
scrubber bar matches that of the playhead in the waveform display area.
The playhead in the waveform display area lets you move around in an audio clip
with more precision, using the waveform itself for reference as you perform edits or
set keyframes for level and pan (down to 1/100th of a frame, if necessary). Clicking
anywhere on the ruler or in the waveform display area moves the playhead to that
frame in your audio clip. You can also drag the playhead to scrub through the clip, or
shuttle through the clip using the shuttle control or the J, K, and L keys. If you hold
down the Shift key while dragging the playhead in the waveform display area, you
can move the playhead in increments of 1/100th of a frame, which lets you trim edits
at a subframe level.
The playhead in the scrubber bar works the same way it does in the Video tab of the
Viewer. The whole length of the scrubber bar represents the entire length of the
audio clip opened in the Viewer, and clicking or dragging the playhead in the
scrubber bar immediately takes you to that part of your clip.
The markers and In and Out points for your clip also appear in the ruler.
 Zoom control: Using this control, you can expand or contract the ruler, decreasing or
increasing the amount of the clip’s waveform that is displayed.