From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Keyboard Shortcuts
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The power of navigating with J, K, and L - Final Cut Pro Tutorial
From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Keyboard Shortcuts
The power of navigating with J, K, and L
- You may be well aware of using the space bar to start and stop playback on clips, if there's another way that allows you to play clips forwards, backwards, and even in fast foward motion. Let's see how we can use J, K, and L keys to move across selected clips with ease. So in my Chapter 4.1 keyword collection, I've got one clip in here. It's of an interview, and I would just like to navigate through it quickly. Again, I can do this right here on Filmstrip view, or I could go to List view, which we saw in another exercise. But I'd like to see a little bit more of this clip, so on the bottom right hand corner, you'll see this is currently set All, which shows just one filmstrip per clip. If you need to, you can drag this scroll bar to show more of a clip. So right now, from here to here represents one minute of a clip, while from here to here represents another minute of a clip. I'm going to select this clip and actually hit first of all, the space bar to stop. And you'll notice that…
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The power of navigating with J, K, and L2m 21s
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Advance by 1, 8, or 10 frames and range selection3m 26s
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Navigating and clearing ranges1m 42s
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Play in to out and looped playback2m 21s
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X marks the spot or marking clips59s
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Creating markers2m 51s
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Navigating and editing markers3m 17s
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The Timeline Index2m 27s
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