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Navigate by timecode

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Navigate by timecode

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- [Instructor] If you have a numeric keypad, you can use it to navigate your sequences and clips using their time code or even the absolute time code. I'd like to quickly touch on this because it really is a quicker way of finding content than using the mouse very often. First of all, it's worth noting that you don't need to type all of the time code to use this feature. So let's say for example, I know that somewhere around here, around about three minutes, there's a shot that I'm interested in. And while I was looking at my sequence earlier, I noticed that yeah, it's around about three minutes, and later on, I'm looking at these takes down here and I'm deciding whether I really want to repeat them in the way that I have. And then, I decide I'd like to go back to the original clip. Well, right now, I can see it, so I can click and go back to that frame. But what if I'm zoomed in a little, let's come in here, and I can't see it? Well, I'm going to have to navigate. Then I have to…

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