Tip #698: Playback Shortcuts

Hiding in plain sight are seven shortcuts that can making previewing and playing your projects a lot easier.

These shortcuts are located in the View > Playback menu – and, I’ll bet, you looked at these once then immediately forgot about them.

Shortcut	What It Does
space	Plays from the position of the playhead
/	Plays selection
Shift + ?	Backs up the Preroll duration and plays until reaching the postroll duration.
Shift + Option + I	Plays from the beginning of the browser clip or timeline
Shift + Option + O	Plays from curent playhead position to the end
Shift + Cmd + F	Plays the timeline full-screen
Cmd + L	Loops timeline playback

NOTE: Preroll and Post-roll durations are set in Preferences > Playback.