Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 68)

Chapter 5 Browser Basics 67
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Scrubbing Through Clips in Icon View
In large icon view, you can scrub through video clips to see their content. You can
also scrub through thumbnails of clips displayed in list view (see “
Working With the
Browser in List View ” on page 62). However, you don’t have all of the options you
have in large icon view.
Note: You can’t scrub through clips in small icon view.
To scrub through clips in large icon view:
1 Do one of the following:
 Select the Scrub Video tool in the Tool palette.
Note: When the Scrub Video tool is selected, you can hold down the Shift or Command
key to temporarily make the Selection tool active to select, open, or move clips.
 With the Selection tool selected, press Control-Shift to temporarily make the Scrub
Video tool active.
2 Drag the Scrub Video tool over the thumbnail.
Selection tool
Select the Scrub
Video tool.
Move right to scrub
forward; move left to
scrub backward.