Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 438)

Chapter 7 Setting Edit Points for Clips and Sequences 105
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Setting In and Out Points to Include a Whole Clip
If you decide that you want to set In and Out points at the very beginning and end of
your clip (the default), it’s easy to do.
To set In and Out points at the clip Media Start and Media End (the beginning and
end of the clip):
1 Open a clip in the Viewer.
2 Do one of the following:
 Click the Mark Clip button.
 Choose Mark > Mark Clip.
 Press X.
Reviewing Your Edit Points
When you’ve set the In and Out points you think you want to use, check your edit
points to make sure that you’ve included all the frames you need for the clip
you’re editing.
To view your clip from its In point to its Out point, do one of the following:
m Click the Play In to Out button.
m Press Shift-\ (backslash).
m Choose Mark > Play > In to Out.
To view your clip from the position of the playhead to the clip’s Out point:
1 Position the playhead where you want to start viewing your clip.
2 Choose Mark > Play > To Out (or press Shift-P).
To get a quick sense of what material is around a specific point in your clip, you can use
the Play Around Current Frame option. This plays a section of your clip from before the
current frame (based on a pre-roll setting) through the amount of time specified by the
post-roll setting. (The preview pre-roll and post-roll settings are in the General tab of
the User Preferences window. To change these settings, see Volume IV, Chapter 23,
“Choosing Settings and Preferences.”)
Mark Clip button