Scrubbing Audio in the Timeline
 
 
 

You can scrub audio at any speed between -100% and +100% of real time (locked rate scrub) or do a free form scrub. You can scrub a single audio track or all audio tracks.

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(a) Focus point  (b) Positioner  (c) Scrub bar  

To scrub audio in the timeline:

  1. Do one of the following:
  2. Click in the scrub bar at the location in the timeline where you want to scrub the audio. Continue to hold down the mouse button.
  3. Do one of the following:

    Dragging farther to the left or right increases the playback speed.

    You can toggle between locked and unlocked scrub modes on the fly, by alternating between the Alt and Alt +Ctrl hot keys.

    TipYou can quickly scrub a single track without moving the focus point by dragging the positioner with the cursor positioned over that track.
  4. To scrub one frame at a time, press Ctrl+Shift+C to go back one frame, and Ctrl+Shift+V to go forward one frame.