Navigate Around My Movie?

In the top left of the Timeline panel, you’ll see the standard icons for navigating around your movie (Rewind [Go to First Frame], Rewind [Go to Previous Frame], Play, and Fast-Forward [Go to Next Frame]). To the right of those controls, there’s a little speaker icon for hearing or muting your audio (that wins the “obvious, duh!” award of the week, I know). As you add more clips, they automatically appear in the timeline in the order you added them. Before long, your timeline can grow off to the right side, and you’ll find yourself scrolling to the right and back quite a bit. You can actually control the size of your timeline using the little slider right under your first clip (seen circled above; it has little mountains on the left and bigger mountains on the right). Give that a slide back and forth, and it will become immediately obvious what it does. If you hit Play right now, you’ll see the playhead and vertical scrubber line (also circled above) moving right along with your movie down the timeline. Wherever that playhead is, that’s where your movie is (it’s kind of like that little info bar you see at the bottom of your screen when you watch a pay-per-view movie). What’s nice is that you can click-and-drag that playhead manually to any spot you want in your movie (and you’ll wind up doing this a lot). So, if you wanted to see a particular clip in your movie, you’d drag that playhead to the clip you wanted to see, and then you’d either click the Play icon and it would start playing from there, or you could just “scrub through it” manually by dragging the playhead at any speed you wanted.