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Apple Final Cut Pro 5 User Manual

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Part II

Learning About the Final Cut Pro Interface

To display thumbnails:

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Control-click any column heading other than Name, then choose Show Thumbnail from
the shortcut menu.

A thumbnail column appears with images for all video clips.

When thumbnails are displayed, the image shown is the first frame of the clip or the In
point of the clip, if one is set. You can scrub through a thumbnail by dragging in the
image, but the frame shown in the Browser always reverts to the Media Start or In
point of the clip.

You can change the starting image (called the poster frame) if you want to display
another frame in the thumbnail. For more information, see “

Setting the Poster Frame

on page 69.

Control-click a column
heading, then choose
Show Thumbnail.

Thumbnails appear as
small images of your
video clips.