Apple Color 1.5 - Manual (Page 168)

Switching the Playback Mode
The playback mode lets you choose whether the In and Out points are automatically
changed to match the duration of the current shot whenever you move the playhead or
whether they remain set to a larger portion of your program.
Shot Mode
Shot mode is the default playback method. Whenever the playhead moves to a new shot,
the Timeline In and Out points are automatically changed to match that shot’s Project In
and Project Out points. As a result, playback is constrained to just that shot. If Loop
Playback is turned on, the playhead will loop repeatedly over the current shot until
playback is stopped.
Note: You can still click other shots in the Timeline to select them, but the In and Out
points don’t change until the playhead is moved to intersect another shot.
Movie Mode
When you first enter movie mode, the Timeline In point is set to the first frame of the
first shot in the Timeline, and the Out point is set to the last frame of the last shot. This
allows you to play through as many shots as you like, previewing whole scenes of your
project. While in movie mode, you can also set your own In and Out points wherever you
want, and they won’t update when you move the playhead to another shot.
Placing Your Own In and Out Points
Regardless of what playback mode you’ve chosen, you can always manually set new In
and Out points wherever you want to. When you set your own In and Out points, the
playback mode changes to movie mode automatically.
To switch the playback mode
Do one of the following:
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Choose Timeline > Toggle Playback Mode.
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Press Shift-Control-M.
To customize the playback duration
1 Move the playhead to the desired In point, then press I.
2 Move the playhead to the desired Out point, then press O.
Loop Playback
If Loop Playback is turned on, the playhead jumps back to the In point whenever it reaches
the Out point during playback.
To turn on loop playback
1 Click the Setup room tab, then click the User Prefs tab.
2 Click the Loop Playback button to turn it on.
168 Chapter 7 Timeline Playback, Navigation, and Editing