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How to centralize playhead during playback ?
Hi,
For the life of me I can’t seem to find the command or menu to centralize the playhead during playback in 6.0.2.
Any reply is appreciated.
Cheers !
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4 Replies
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During playback? You have to scroll the timeline manually.
All the best,
Tom
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Another Vegas feature I really miss in FCP – having the timeline scroll during playback makes troubleshooting complex sequences so much easier.
In FCP I find myself constantly pausing playback, forcing a re-centering of the timeline, then resume playback. Wish there was a simpler way…
-d
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Dave,
I am curious about this. Once you hit the space bar the playhead stops wherever it is in the sequence.
I need a better explanation of why this is such a critical feature?
This is something the FCP team would only really tackle if there was some sort of really important discovery.
David
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Hi David, Not sure I would characterize timeline scrolling as ‘critical’, but it does make for a more efficient editing process.
For example, I often find myself working on videos with a dozen or more video tracks. With the timeline scrolling during playback, I can often spot problems before the video plays down to that location, repair, and continue on without wasting time. In FCP, because I am often blind to the area of the sequence that is playing, I must wait until that section plays, recognize the problem, repair it, set the playhead back to the beginning of the section where the problem began, watch the video a second time, and then continue on. Sometimes it’s only matter of going back 10 or 15 seconds, other times to resolve a problem at the end of a clip, I have to adjust the beginning, and that causes a lot of wasted time.
Another example in these multi-track videos is that I often end up making many changes by adding new clips on new tracks. Often the ‘new’ version ends up hiding entire ‘older’ clips. I like to take the old clips out of the project when they’re no longer used just to keep things clean, but in FCP I find I have to do that in two steps – first step is to ‘zoom out’ of the timeline so I can see the entire project and scan it for these types of ‘buried clip’ issues and resolve them, then I can zoom back in and play the timeline at a visual resolution that lets me see the transitions, clip alignments, etc.
again, not critical, just something that flows a little nicer in some other NLE’s. There are other features I would place in the ‘critical’ category that have caused us to stop the migration from Vegas to FCP, but thats for a different thread I think.
-dave
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