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Setting the Zoom Level of the Timeline
Depending on how you like to work, there are several methods of zooming into and out of the Timeline.
— Using the Vertical Zoom slider: A pair of sliders at the right of the toolbar let you zoom vertically and horizontally. The first one lets you scroll vertically in order to see more detail in the height of your waveforms. If no tracks are selected, then zooming is centered on the top audio track in the Timeline. If one or more tracks are selected, then zooming is centered on the topmost selected audio track.
— Using the Horizontal Zoom slider: A pair of sliders at the right of the toolbar let you zoom vertically and horizontally. The second one lets you zoom horizontally in order to see more detail in the width of your waveforms.
— Pressing Command-Equal (=) and Command-Minus (–): Command-Equal (also referred to as Command-Plus) and Command-Minus let you zoom horizontally into the Timeline.
— Use Shift-Z to Zoom to Fit: Command-Z lets you zoom horizontally to fit all clips in your program to the available width of the Timeline.
— Using scroll controls of your pointing device to scroll horizontally: Holding the Option key down and using the scroll wheel (or scroll control) of your pointing device will zoom horizontally into the Timeline. Holding the Command key down and using the scroll wheel will move the Timeline earlier or later than its current time, without moving Playhead.
— Using scroll controls of your pointing device to scroll vertically: Holding the Shift key down and using the scroll wheel (or scroll control) lets you zoom vertically in the Timeline. In this case,
if no tracks are selected, then zooming is centered on the top audio track in the Timeline. If one or more tracks are selected, then zooming is centered on the topmost selected audio track.
— Using the Fairlight panel’s Jog/Edit wheel: If you have a Fairlight panel, you can hold the ZOOM button down while turning the Jog/Edit wheel to zoom into the Timeline at the position of the playhead.
Scrolling Through the Timeline
However closely you’re zoomed into the Timeline, if you’re zoomed enough so that clips extend past the visible area of the Timeline, scroll bars appear below. If the playhead is offscreen, a small orange tic mark indicates its position relative to the entire timeline, which is represented by the total width of the scroll bar’s background.
If you drag the playhead, or otherwise use any of the transport controls or playback key shortcuts to move through the Timeline, the contents of the Timeline refresh every time the playhead hits the left or right edge of what’s visible.