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“The Video Scopes” on page 5-3). In addition to these the following
one is provided:
8.7.3 The Scrub Bar
Beneath the video overlay you can find a scrub bar offering you a time-
line of the currently displayed contents. With its cursor ( ) you can
move within and view the contents of the selected item. While working
with the scrub bar or the preview controls, the video overlay always ad-
justs to your moves and displays the image at the selected position.
The scrub bar of the preview area is similar to the other scrub bars of
the Edit Tool. For further information about them see chapter “The
Control Area” on page 5-1. The following features are provided by the
scrub bar:
Split Screen When the preview area shows the contents of the
timeline (see section “Selecting Contents for View-
ing” on page 8-61), this menu option activates the
split screen operation of the video overlay. Further
information about this can be found in section
“Working with Split Screen” on page 8-64.
Items of Scrub Bar Description
in dark grey Parts of the scrub bar displayed in dark grey in-
dicate either parts of the timeline that are not
visible in the timeline area at the moment due
to zooming, or parts of an EDL event which are
deselected via a set in- and outpoint (i.e. its
head and tail).
in light grey Parts in light grey indicate either the part of the
timeline that is currently visible in the timeline
area, or the part of an EDL event that is select-
ed via a set in- and outpoint (i.e. the visible part
of the EDL event after building up the EDL in
the timeline)
The blue line indicates the part of the EDL
event/timeline that is selected via in- and out-
point.
With the scrub bar cursor you can move within
the EDL event/timeline. Simply select the cur-
sor with the mouse and move it along the scrub
bar to the desired position. You can also click
somewhere on the scrub bar to move the cur-
sor there immediately.