Apple 6 manual Transport Controls in the Preview Area, Restrictions During Preview

Transport Controls in the Preview Area

The transport, navigation, and marking controls in the Preview area work in the same way as the controls in the Viewer and Canvas. The same keyboard shortcuts, including the J, K, and L keys for playback, also work. Looped playback can be turned on or off by choosing View > Loop Playback (or by pressing Control-L).

You can press the Tab key to move through the fields in the Preview and Logging areas. For more information about the controls in the Viewer, see the Final Cut Pro 6

User Manual, Volume I, Chapter 6, “Viewer Basics.”

Final Cut Pro treats all of the selected clips in the Browse area as a single continuous entity when you are jogging, shuttling, using the J, K, and L keys, or clicking the Previous Clip and Next Clip buttons. For example, when the playhead reaches the end of a clip in the selection, the next selected clip is opened and playback continues. However, if you enable looped playback (by choosing View > Loop Playback or by pressing Control-L), playback is limited to the clip that appears in the Preview area.

The Previous Clip and Next Clip buttons navigate within the range of selected clips in the Browse area. (However, if just one clip is selected, you can navigate through all of the clips.)

To move from clip to clip within the selected clips in the Browse area, do one of the following:

mClick the Previous Clip button (or press Command–Control–Left Arrow).

mClick the Next Clip button (or press Command–Control–Right Arrow).

To add the current clip to the Transfer Queue, do one of the following:

mClick the Add Clip to Queue button.

mClick in the image display area and drag the clip to the Transfer Queue.

mPress F2.

Restrictions During Preview

Some file-based media formats have specific limitations when playing back footage directly from a mounted volume. See the following sections for detailed information:

åFor information about P2 restrictions: See “Restrictions During Preview” on page 100.

åFor information about AVCHD restrictions: See “Restrictions During Preview” on page 111.

åFor information about AVC-Intra restrictions: See “Restrictions When Working with AVC-Intra” on page 116.

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