Understanding trimming preferences

- In this video we're going to look…at the trimming preferences available…in Final Cut Pro X and how they affect…our timeline and playback functionality.…So I'm in my 2.1 keyword collection,…I wanna double-click my 2.1 project to open up the timeline.…And what we're gonna look at now…is a couple trimming preferences…that are available to us in Final Cut Pro X.…So most of these trimming options…are available from the Final Cut Pro menu,…one of them refers to something…called play around which actually…plays around your playhead.…

The idea is that it plays a couple seconds…before and then a couple seconds after.…It's meant for when your playhead…is over edit points.…So let's see how we can adjust that.…I'm gonna go to the Final Cut Pro menu,…go to preferences, and the first thing…that we wanna take a look at is playback,…the tab here.…There's something that refers to pre-roll…and post-roll duration, and that's…what's controlled by the play around.…So the shift, question mark is what…performs the play around, and these two dials…