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Controlling playback in the Photoshop timeline

Controlling playback in the Photoshop timeline - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop: Editing Video and Creating Slideshows

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Controlling playback in the Photoshop timeline

- Photoshop offers several useful buttons to control the playback of your video. Let's explore them. First up, the playhead is where you're at in time. So this can be dragged as you're moving through. However, you'll notice that we have some buttons here that allow us to skip. For example, go to the next frame moves us one frame forward at a time. This can be useful for some precision edits. For example, trying to find the exact place you want to move the start or end. You'll also see a similar button that allows you to go back one frame at a time. The middle button here is play. Clicking this will start the video playback. (piano music) (scratching and squeaking) Clicking again will stop. If your computer has adequate power, the video will start to play back in real time. If not, it may have to cache the frames. And that's what you're seeing here. This little progress indicator indicates frames that have been loaded into video memory. And as you drag through the timeline or pause…

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