Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 769)

436 Part III Fine-Tuning Your Edit
Using the Gang Playhead Sync Option
You can lock the playhead in the Viewer to the playhead in the Canvas and Timeline so
that they move together while scrubbing through clips. This is known as ganging the
clip in the Viewer window to the sequence in the Canvas and Timeline windows.
When this option is selected, the offset between the current position of the Canvas/
Timeline playhead and the current position of the Viewer playhead is maintained as
both playheads move together. This mode is useful for editing operations in which you
want to set In or Out points in the Viewer using durations defined by items or markers
in the Timeline as your reference.
Example: Trimming a Browser Clip by the Duration of a Sequence Clip
The Gang playhead sync option can help you perform precise trimming operations. For
example, suppose you want to trim the Out point of a Browser clip in the Viewer by the
duration of the last sequence clip in the Timeline.
1 Double-click a Browser clip to open it in the Viewer.
2 Press Shift-O to move the playhead in the Viewer to the Out point of the clip.
3 Move the Canvas/Timeline playhead to the Out point of the last clip in the sequence.
The Out point is the sync
point for the clip in the
Viewer.
The Out point of the last
clip in the sequence is
the sync point in the
Timeline and Canvas.