• Apple Final Cut Pro

  Viewing selected ‘range’. Or view in to out in viewer

  Posted by James Bayliss-smith on July 14, 2011 at 4:40 am

  This is sending me crazy. So I’ve selected a ‘range’ of a clip in the browser and I’m about to overwrite it to the timeline. Now I want to view the range I’ve just selected before I put it onto the timeline. In FCP7 I would just hit up (I think it is called previous edit) presuming I’m in the canvas and the play head would jump to the in point and I could just hit space bar and see the clip that I just selected before I used it but I can’t work out how to do this quickly in X? I’ve tried hitting ; which is previous edit but it just extends the range to the begginning o fth eclip losing my inpoint? I’m sure this is very simple but I can’t work it out?

  Thanks

  Ray Wang replied 14 years, 10 months ago 5 Members · 8 Replies
• 8 Replies

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  Brendan Gibbons

  July 14, 2011 at 4:48 am

  I think the same FCP 7 shortcut here applies to X. Shift + I to jump to your in point.

  Cheers,

  Brendan
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  James Bayliss-smith

  July 14, 2011 at 4:51 am

  Thanks Brendan but that doesn’t work
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  Brendan Gibbons

  July 14, 2011 at 5:46 am

  I think we are talking about the same thing?

  You’ve marked a selection in your clip in browser, now you want to jump to the IN point and playback before editing to timeline?

  Shift + i works for me, jumps to selection in point. Shift + O jumps to out point.

  Have a look in the “Mark” menu at the top, “GOTO” submenu, selection Start, and Selection End.

  Cheers,

  Brendan
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  Mark Morache

  July 14, 2011 at 5:55 am

  Shift I and Shift O work for me too.

  Also, just hit the forward slash key /
  It plays the selection from in to out. Super simple.

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  I’ll reconsider after the first upgrade.

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  Ray Wang

  July 14, 2011 at 5:58 am

  Pressing backslash will automatically play from the beginning of the selection in the events.

  1. Select in / out points in the event viewer.
  2. Press “/” to playback (it will automatically play from beginning of the range to the end)
  3. Cmd+L to toggle looping (or View menu > Playback > Loop Playback)

  —
  Ray
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  Fabien Daguerre

  July 14, 2011 at 7:03 am

  I may be wrong, but I think the question is about playing selection in the timeline, not in the event browser.
  I’m not comfortable either in selecting areas on the timeline, not on a clip.
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  Ray Wang

  July 14, 2011 at 10:39 am

  If it is on the timeline, you can use either the range selection tool (“R”) or define precisely using “I” and “O” keys in the timeline.

  Pressing “/” plays back the range.

  —
  Ray
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  Ray Wang

  July 14, 2011 at 10:45 am

  As Brendan says, Shift-I, Shift-O moves the playhead to In / Out points.
  But pressing “/” will play from the In point.

  The right section has to be highlighted. i.e. if you want to play in Event (cmd+1), Timeline (cmd+3).

  —
  Ray

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