From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Keyboard Shortcuts

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Zooming in on the timeline and fitting to the window

Zooming in on the timeline and fitting to the window - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Keyboard Shortcuts

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Zooming in on the timeline and fitting to the window

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- Besides using the toolbar or slider to zoom in on a segment of the timeline, we can drive this all by keyboard shortcuts. We can also fit every clip we've edited into our timeline, so far, into the window. Let's see how this is done. So I've got my 5.5 Yoga Cut double clicked and loaded into the timeline from that 5.5 keyboard collection. I've got a couple clips in the timeline and I just want to move my playhead into the middle of the second clip. Now this is going to determine where we zoom in and how we zoom in is simply command equals. so I'm going to hit command equals once, command equals a second time. You can see that we are now zoomed in a little bit on this clip. We can also zoom out by hitting command minus. So I'll hit command minus once as you just saw. Command minus a second time to zoom out yet again. Now, in the timeline, you have access to two things. You have the playhead as well as the skimmer. So if you have both showing at the same time, and used command equals,…

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