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— Fast Review button: Intended to help you watch through a large collection of media quickly, clicking this button begins accelerated playback through the Source Tape or through the Timeline, where the speed of playback is relative to the length of each clip you’re playing through. Long clips play faster, whereas shorter clips play closer to real time. In this way, you can watch a lot of material really quickly.
— Tools button: The Tools button reveals a variety of controls for transform, crop, audio, speed effects, camera stabilization and lens correction, dynamic zoom, and compositing, covered in more detail later in this chapter.
— Jog control: Clicking and dragging within the jog control lets you scrub very precisely through the content of the Viewer.
— Transport controls: A set of Previous Edit (Up Arrow), Stop (Spacebar), Play (Spacebar), Next Edit (Down Arrow), and Loop Playback (Command-/) buttons constitute clickable controls for controlling playback of clips and the Timeline. Each button has a matching keyboard shortcut.
— Mark In/Out: Clickable controls to set In and Out points respectively.
— Playhead timecode: A number field shows you the timecode value at the playhead of a clip or of the Timeline to give you a numeric reference for where you are.
Tools
Clicking the Tools button reveals a toolbar that you can use to add and edit clip effects, right within the Viewer with no Inspector needed. The Tools button reveals a variety of controls for transform, crop, audio, speed effects, camera stabilization and lens correction, dynamic zoom, and compositing, covered in more detail later in this chapter.
The Tools bar shown opened
Bypass Color Grades and Fusion
The Bypass Color Grades and Fusion Effects button/drop-down lets you turn off all grades and effects that you may have applied in the Color page and/or Fusion page in order to improve playback performance on low power computers. Click the button (Shift-D) to disable or reenable grading and effects, or right-click this button to access a menu that lets you choose which things you want this button to control.
The Bypass Grades and Fusion button, shown being right-clicked to view its options