User Guide

Chapter 6 Working With Panasonic P2 Media 89
Transport Controls in the Preview Area
The transport, navigation, and marking controls in the Preview area work in the same
way as the controls in the Viewer and Canvas. The same keyboard shortcuts, including
the J, K, and L keys for playback, also work. Looped playback can be turned on or off by
choosing View > Loop Playback (or by pressing Control-L).
You can press the Tab key to move through the fields in the Preview and Logging areas.
See the Final Cut Pro 5 User Manual, Volume I, Chapter 6, “Viewer Basics” for more
information about the controls in the Viewer.
Final Cut Pro treats all of the selected clips in the Browse area as a single continuous
entity when you are jogging, shuttling, using the J, K, and L keys, or clicking the
Previous and Next Clip buttons. For example, when the playhead reaches the end of a
clip in the selection, the next selected clip is opened and playback continues. However,
if you enabled looped playback (by choosing View > Loop Playback or by pressing
Control-L), playback is limited to the clip that appears in the Preview area.
The Previous and Next Clip buttons navigate within the range of selected clips in the
Browse area. If just one clip is selected, you can navigate through all of the clips.
To move from clip to clip within the selected clips in the Browse area,
do one of the following:
m Click the Previous Clip button (or press Command–Control–Left Arrow).
m Click the Next Clip button (or press Command–Control–Right Arrow).
To add the current clip to the Transfer Queue, do one of the following:
m Click the Add Clip to Queue button.
m Click in the image display area and drag the clip to the Transfer Queue.
m Press F2.
Restrictions During Preview
The following restrictions apply while viewing clips in the Preview area:
 Listening to audio while scrubbing: While previewing footage in the Import Panasonic
P2 window, you can only hear audio during forward and reverse playback at normal
(100 percent) speed. Scrubbing at other speeds is silent.
 Video playback performance: Computers with the minimum high definition video
system requirements (1 GHz processor and 1 GB of RAM) do not smoothly preview
high definition video in the Preview area.
 P2 card and volume playback performance: If you experience playback issues from a
clip stored on a P2 card, try copying the CONTENTS folder from the P2 card to a
folder on a separate hard disk and then use the copied clip for ingest. If you use this
method, make sure to unmount the original P2 card so that there are not multiple
occurrences of the same P2 clip in the Import Panasonic P2 window.