Jean-François Fortin Tam
nekohayo@gmail.com
Mario Blättermann
mariobl@gnome.org Brian Grohe grohe43@gmail.com Tomáš Karger tomkarger@gmail.com
Moving the playhead, using the zoom feature, scrolling and scrubbing.

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Mario Blättermann
mariobl@freenet.de 2010, 2011
Marcel Tiede
marcel.tiede@yahoo.de 2014
Benjamin Steinwender
b@stbe.at 2014
Christian Kirbach
christian.kirbach@gmail.com 2014

# Moving around the timeline

# Activating the timeline toolbar

The timeline toolbar contains many tools, which become active once a clip is selected in the timeline. To select a clip, simply click on the desired clip in the timeline. When selected, the clip will become darker and the timeline toolbar items will now be clickable.

# Scrolling

You can use the scrollbars (located on the right and bottom of the timeline), use the mouse wheel anywhere over the timeline to scroll horizontally, or hold down the Shift key while using the mousewheel to scroll the timeline layers vertically.

# Vergrößern

Zooming directly affects your editing accuracy and your ability to move quickly along the timeline:

When zooming in, video clips display more thumbnails and audio clips display increasingly detailed waveforms, allowing you to do precise edits.

Zooming out allows you to scroll faster along the timeline. Zoom can thus be used in conjunction with scrolling to move quickly between distant points of your project's chronology.

You can zoom in and out by:

Holding the Ctrl key while using the mousewheel over the timeline

Using the View Zoom In and View Zoom Out menu items

Dragging the zoom slider on the left of the ruler

Using keyboard shortcuts such as Ctrl- to zoom out or Ctrl= (Ctrl+ on the numeric keypad) to zoom in

To get a better overview of your timeline, you may use the View Best Fit menu item or click the Zoom button on the left of the zoom slider. The third way to do this is by pressing Ctrl 0

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## Zooming is always centered around the location of your playhead

When using the mouse wheel to zoom in and out, remember that the zoom is not relative to the position of your mouse, only to the position of the playhead on the timeline.

## Warping between zoom levels

Using your mouse, you can also warp instantly from any zoom level to another in a single click. To do that, click anywhere on the zoom slider.

# Moving the playhead

You can change the position of the playhead by clicking anywhere on the ruler or on the timeline.

When clicking on the timeline:

If a clip is under the mouse cursor, it will replace the current clip selection (see the Making selections section for more detailed instructions).

If there is no clip under the cursor, all selected clips (if any) will be deselected.

When clicking on the ruler, only the playhead's position changes; clip selections are not affected.

## Jumping to an exact position

You can jump to an exact position in the timeline by editing the time value shown in the playback toolbar (see description of The main window). To edit it, simply click on the widget, overwrite the value and hit enter. The value can represent either timecode or a frame number. Timecode has the following form: hh:mm:ss.milisec where hours are optional. To insert a frame number, overwrite the timecode with a plain number of the desired frame.

# Scrubbing

Scrubbing is a way of moving the playhead that allows you to:

Search for a specific position in time by approximation/trial and error.

Review repeatedly the visual motion in a scene by moving back and forth in time.

To scrub, click on the ruler and move the mouse with the button still held down.