Play, loop and watch full screen
Press Space to play. Select something and press L to play just that part on repeat while you adjust it, and press F to watch the preview full screen.
Mac appChrome
Where to find it
- Video editor
- Timeline
- Play
- Space
- Play or pause
- L
- Loop what is selected. Press again to play the whole video
- F
- Fullscreen the preview
- Esc
- Leave full screen
Looping helps when you tune something short, like a zoom or a camera move: it plays over and over while you change it, so you judge it on the tenth pass rather than the first.
- 1Select a zoom, a callout or another block on the timeline.
- 2Press L, or the loop button on the toolbar.The selected stretch plays on repeat.
- 3Press L again to play the whole video.
Full screen is also in the ⋯ menu as Fullscreen the preview.
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Use the timelineThe timeline lays the video out left to right, with a lane for each kind of change. Drag the playhead to scrub, and zoom the timeline with + and −.Keyboard shortcutsEvery key PointerCam answers to: recording in Chrome and on a Mac, the video editor, its timeline and preview, and the screenshot tools.
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