Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Looping Video Playback in the Timeline

Someone emailed me the other day asking how to loop video playback in FCP's timeline. After thinking about it for a little bit (and way over-thinking how to do it) it hit me and it's simple.

Set your In and Out points in the timeline. Don't bother with Option + A to select the portion of your sequence within the In and Out points. Tap Control + L to turn on Loop Playback, then hit Shift + \ (backslash) to just play the portion of the sequence between the In and Out points.

(Thanks to Josh for bringing this up!)

2 comments:

JL said...

Thanks again Walker!!

Great work on the blog. Keep it up.

PENSIVE BLOB said...

Sorry if this request has been done before, but could you post up a list of your favourite FCP shortcuts? I've found some on the net but they're either too many or too few... Thanks