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This page will describe the rest of Timeline commands.
Keyframes and stepping modes. See Keyframe Indicator
Edit marks.
Every time you cut or paste some media in a movie, an edit mark appears in the timeline.
Edit marks are useful to indicate where sequences have been edited, and allow you to navigate very fast and accurately to those points.
By pressing Control - Left Arrow or Control - Right Arrow, or using Navigation menu with options Go to previous edit and Go to next edit, you can step through the edit marks of the document.
TimeCode subsecond formats.
SimpleMovieX uses several formats to represents time.
All formats begin with hours, minutes and seconds. 1:02:24 stands for one hour, 2 minutes and 24 seconds.
After seconds, several formats are possible:
Comma format: 0:00:24,16 means 24 seconds and 16 frames.
It is used when the movie has a well-known frame rate, like PAL (25 frames per second) or NTSC (29.97 frames per second).
Dot format: 0:00:24.63 means 24 seconds and 63 hundreds.
Dot format is used when frame rate is unknown, variable, or not standard.
Go to TimeCode
This option in Navigation menu allows to key-in an exact time and have the playhead move to it.
Selection length can also be accurately adjusted with this command.
Jog Control
Movie playback speed can be controlled with the 3 jog keyboard shortcuts:
J to increase backwards speed or slow down forward speed.
K to stop
L to increase forward speed or slow down backwards speed.
By pressing J or L several times, you can accelerate playback by a factor of 10 or more. Note that due to disk access and processing speed, playback can stutter or even freeze at high playback speeds.