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Timeline cursor
How do I set up to zoom in where the timeline cursor is. Whenever I zoom in or out of the sequence I sometimes lose the cursor playhead. On the Avid and Premiere it always zooms into the center of frame all the way to the frame. What is the keyboard shortcut for this command in FCP. Thanks!
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Command +/- will zoom in and out.
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The zoom works in two ways:
If you have any clip(s) selected (highlighted), then the zoom will go in to a point centered on the selected clip(s).
If you DON’T have any clip selected (highlighted), then the zoom will go in to a point centered on where the cursor is sitting.
So, as long as you do NOT have any clip(s) selected (highlighted, by touching them with the cursor) on the timeline, if you hit the ZOOM key (Apple +) the timeline will expand, centered on the cursor (“playhead”).
If the zoom “jumps” to another area on the timeline, it means that you already had a clip “selected”.
You can “de-select” any selected clip(s) by hitting Shift-Cmd-A (think of it as UN-“select all”).
Its easy to try this out.
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