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K+J Plays backward at slow motion (with slow motion audio playback).
K+L Plays forward at slow motion (with pitch-corrected audio playback
on OS X).
Pressing K while tapping J Moves the playhead back one frame.
Pressing K while tapping L Moves the playhead forward one frame.
If you’re using Fairlight with the keyboard, then this will probably become one of the main ways
you move the playhead around in DaVinci Resolve.
Dragging the Playhead to Scrub
You can also drag the playhead left and right to scrub through the visible area of the Timeline
by clicking and dragging anywhere within the Timeline ruler at the top of the Timeline, directly
below the toolbar. If you’re zoomed in at a reasonable level for editing, scrubbing the playhead
using your pointer will result in smooth, tape-like slow and fast audio playback, giving you a
great deal of precision while trimming audio.
Looping Playback
Two controls govern looping on the Fairlight page, similarly to how looping works on the
Edit page.
 Loop: Command-Forward Slash (/). Toggles looped playback off and on. While
looped playback is on, playback initiated with any of the following commands will loop
automatically until you stop playback.
 Play In to Out: Option-Forward Slash (/). If you’ve marked a section of a clip or timeline
with In and Out points, this command lets you preview how it will play.
Loop Jog Scrubbing
Currently available only on the Fairlight page, choosing Timeline > Loop Jog enables a brief
sample preview to be heard while scrubbing the playhead through the Timeline. This can make
it easier to recognize bits of dialog or music as you’re quickly scrubbing through tracks, in
situations where you’re trying to locate specific lines or music cues. It also enables this brief
sample preview to loop endlessly when you hold the playhead on a frame, so you can pause
while scrubbing and hear (by default) the current 80 ms prior to the playhead as it loops.
A pair of settings in the User Preferences let you customize this behavior.
 Loop Jog Alignment: Three options let you choose whether you loop audio Pre
the position of the playhead, Centered on the playhead, or Post the position of the
playhead.
 Loop Jog Width: A field lets you choose how many milliseconds of audio to loop
when Loop Jog is enabled. How many milliseconds of audio corresponds to one
frame depends on the frame rate of the video. For example, at a frame rate of 25 fps,
there are 1000/25 = 40 ms per frame, so the default value of 80 ms equals two frames
of˛looping.
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