<p>Your event browser needs to be in filmstrip view for this to work. Press [&#8997;&#x2318;1]  Then you can Zoom in [&#x2318;+] or out [&#x2318;-] to whatever granularity you like.</p>

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2013-03-21T17:26:12.337Z
2013-03-21T17:26:12.337Z
Jason Conrad
<p>I would recommend to use JKL to scrub in the Viewer, directly in the Event Library. Press L to play forward at 1x. Press another time to play at 2x and so forth.<br>
Press K to stop playback.<br>
L plays backwards. Multiple invocations result in faster playback.<br>
Hold down K and press L to go one frame forward, K + J to go one frame backward.</p>

<p>Maybe you can give it a go and see if that work out for you. If not go with Jason Conrad's suggestion. </p>

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2013-03-21T19:50:33.280Z
2013-03-21T19:50:33.280Z
Zettt
<p>I'm editing a project where I have 5 very long clips.  I'm going through, favorite-ing the good portions ("subclipping" per se) and then organizing my clips from those subclips.</p>

<p>A problem I'm running into however, is that I would like to have finer control over my in and out points, so I would like to open my long clips in the timeline, so I can use the scrubber over a larger area.  But when the clip is "opened in timeline" I can't favorite portions of it.</p>

<p>Is there any workaround to this?  Or a different solution to my problem?</p>

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Favoriting/Subclipping with Long Clips in Timeline in FCPX
Ryan
# Favoriting/Subclipping with Long Clips in Timeline in FCPX

(Asked by: username_0 on 2012-04-04)

I'm editing a project where I have 5 very long clips. I'm going through, favorite-ing the good portions ("subclipping" per se) and then organizing my clips from those subclips.

A problem I'm running into however, is that I would like to have finer control over my in and out points, so I would like to open my long clips in the timeline, so I can use the scrubber over a larger area. But when the clip is "opened in timeline" I can't favorite portions of it.

Is there any workaround to this? Or a different solution to my problem?

**Tags:** software, editing, final-cut-pro, final-cut-pro-x


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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2013-03-21. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

Your event browser needs to be in filmstrip view for this to work. Press [⌥⌘1] Then you can Zoom in [⌘+] or out [⌘-] to whatever granularity you like.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2013-03-21. Score: 1

I would recommend to use JKL to scrub in the Viewer, directly in the Event Library. Press L to play forward at 1x. Press another time to play at 2x and so forth.  
Press K to stop playback.  
L plays backwards. Multiple invocations result in faster playback.  
Hold down K and press L to go one frame forward, K + J to go one frame backward.

Maybe you can give it a go and see if that work out for you. If not go with username_1's suggestion.


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