Navigate your project in Final Cut Pro for Mac

In Final Cut Pro, do any of the following:

• Skim to a frame in your project: Move the skimmer left and right over the clips in the timeline to quickly view them in the viewer.

• Move the playhead to a frame in your project: Move the playhead by clicking or dragging in the ruler at the top of the timeline, or by clicking the timeline background.

  Tip: To prevent the playhead from moving while you select a clip in the timeline, press Option as you click.

To make it easier to find specific frames in a clip, you can step through the filmstrip frame by frame, rather than skimming it.

1. In the Final Cut Pro timeline or browser, move the pointer  over a filmstrip, then click.

2. Do any of the following:

   • Move backward in one-frame increments: Choose Mark > Previous > Frame (or press the Left Arrow key).

   • Move forward in one-frame increments: Choose Mark > Next > Frame (or press the Right Arrow key).

You can navigate clips by subframes. A subframe has 1/80 the duration of a video frame and is a more precise unit of reference when viewing or editing audio waveforms that are zoomed in to the sample level.

1. In the Final Cut Pro timeline or browser, move the pointer  over a clip, then click.

2. Do any of the following:

   • Move backward in one-subframe increments: Press Option-Left Arrow.

   • Move forward in one-subframe increments: Press Option-Right Arrow.

You can move the playhead quickly from point to point in the timeline.

In Final Cut Pro, do any of the following:

• Go to the next edit point: Choose Mark > Next > Edit (or press the Down Arrow key).

• Go to the previous edit point: Choose Mark > Previous > Edit (or press the Up Arrow key).

• Go to the start of the project: Choose Mark > Go to > Beginning (or press the Home key).

• Go to the end of the project: Choose Mark > Go to > End (or press the End key).

• Go to the next marker: Choose Mark > Next > Marker, or press Control-Apostrophe (’).

• Go to the previous marker: Choose Mark > Previous > Marker, or press Control-Semicolon (;).

For more information about markers, see Intro to markers in Final Cut Pro for Mac.