Scrubbing with the playhead

The playhead () above the timeline can be dragged back and forth to shuttle forward or backward from the cursor position to locate an edit point.

Tip: Set in and out points while dragging the playhead by pressing the I and O keys.

Note: The playhead is also available in the Trimmer window.

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Drag playhead to scrub

Scrubbing with the scrub control slider

The scrub control slider can be dragged back and forth. The farther from the center that the slider is dragged, the faster the playback, both forward and in reverse. Below the slider is a small yellow marker that can be used to

set the normal rate playback speed. This is the speed at which the project Scrub control slider plays when you click the Play button on the transport bar.

Scrubbing on the timeline

The second way that a project can be scrubbed is by positioning the mouse pointer over the timeline cursor at a location that is not over any events and pressing Ctrl . The cursor changes to a speaker icon. Now, when you left- click, the cursor icon changes again to a pan/scrub icon. Drag the mouse left or right to scrub the timeline.

Tip: You can also choose to enable timeline scrubbing when the mouse is positioned over events. From the Options menu, choose Preferences, and select Allow Ctrl+drag cursor style scrub over events on the General tab.

Scrubbing with the keyboard

Three letters (JKL) are used as a keyboard scrub control.

Note: Choose a setting from the JKL / shuttle speed drop- down list on the Editing tab of the Preferences dialog to control the scrub speed and range.

Press J for reverse and L for forward playback. Press K to pause playback.

There are several ways to adjust playback speed:

Press Ctrl over

Left-click and

timeline cursor

drag to scrub

Keyboard scrub letters

J K L

Reverse Pause Forward

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Adjust the JKL / shuttle speed selection on the Editing tab of the Preferences dialog.

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Hold

K

while pressing J or L to emulate a shuttle knob mode. Press K + J to turn the knob to the left

 

or K

+ L

to turn the knob to the left. Press K again or

 

to return to normal mode.

 

Space

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