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Navigating Edit Sequences

You can easily navigate through a clip’s edit sequence directly on the Desktop. You can navigate between cuts and transitions on all layers and tracks. You can also navigate between tracks and layers and change the clip’s focus.

When you navigate between tracks, the track you navigate to becomes the Primary video track. You do not have to manually change the Primary track of the clip’s timeline in the Player to see the results of the new track.

When navigating to a new track, you go to the topmost layer of the track.

When you navigate between layers and tracks, only the video tracks and video layers cycle unless you are in the Player timeline. In the Player timeline, navigating between layers and tracks also cycles the audio tracks.

When you have navigated to the topmost or bottommost layer or track, the tracks and layers keep cycling in the same order.

To retain the same video clip length regardless of focus as you navigate, black frames are added to make each layer the same length as the video clip duration. Video on the next layer down is always seen through a gap.

Clips appear in realtime. If soft effects cannot be displayed, the words “Unrendered Frame” appear on the applicable frames.

To navigate clips:

1. Uncollapse the clip on a Desktop reel.
2. With the cursor over the Desktop clip, use any of the following hotkey and Player control combinations.

   (a) Previous Clip Player control(b) Next Clip Player control

   To go to: | Press:
   --- | ---
   The next cut or transition on the current layer | Alt+Next Clip Player control
   The previous cut or transition on the current layer | Alt+Previous Clip Player control
   The next cut or transition on any layer or track for the duration of the current track | Shift+Alt+Next Clip Player control
   The previous cut or transition on any layer or track for the duration of the current track | Shift+Alt+Previous Clip Player control
   The next layer or track down in the vertical edit | down arrow
   The next layer or track up in the vertical edit | up arrow
   The next video track down | Ctrl+Alt+down arrow
   The next video track up | Ctrl+Alt+up arrow

As you navigate between layers and tracks, information on the Desktop clip updates to reflect which track and layer you are on. In the following example, there are two video tracks. The focus is on the topmost layer—L2— of track V2.

(a) Total number of video tracks(b) Focus is on track V2(c) Focus of track V2 is on topmost layer, L2

In the next example, the focus is on the next layer down, L1, of the same track. When the focus is not on the topmost layer, the clip information reflects the total number of layers in addition to the focus layer.

(a) Focus layer(b) Total number of layers on track V2

As you navigate the layers of a stereo track, the clip information updates to reflect whether you are on the left eye or right eye layer, as shown in the following examples.

(a) Stereo track(b) Left eye layer

(a) Right eye layer

#### Topics in this section

- Identifying Cuts and Transitions