Previewing Your Sequence

During the edit process, you will want to constantly preview your media clips and the adjustments you have made. You can do this by manually controlling the timeline cursorplace the cursor at the start of where you want to preview, press the spacebar to play, and press it again to stop.

It is also possible to play a section of the Timeline in a continuous loop so that you can quickly preview whether or not a particular set of clips works together or if a Dissolve needs tweaking.

To create a continuous playback

1.	Position the timeline cursor at the start of the area you want to preview, and press I to add a mark-in point to the Timeline.
2.	Position the timeline cursor at the end of the area you want to preview, and press the O key to add a mark-out point to the Timeline (Figure 6.71). Figure 6.71. A section of the Timeline marked out for playback.
3.	Click the Play from Mark-In to Mark-Out button and the Timeline plays in a continuous loop until you click the button again.

Tip

• You can add a mark-in and a mark-out point to the Timeline by selecting the slices above the area you want to preview, right-clicking, and selecting Set Mark In/Out For Edits x -> y. Multiple slices can be selected using the Shift key (Figure 6.72).

  Figure 6.72. A mark-in and mark-out point added to the Timeline via right-clicking the slice numbers.