Return to click point in timeline

Does anyone know whether FCP allows us to return to the location clicked in the timeline before playing? In other words, if you click to find a frame, then press the spacebar to play, then how can you return to the frame you clicked?
Is there a "back-to-last-clicked" command somewhere?
Thanks.

set an in point, then use up arrow...
set a marker, then use option-m
But I'll bet Hanumang will pipe in here with the proper way.
EDIT - But in case he doesn't...look at the bottom of 'Mark' on your main menu bar..there are several ways to accomplish this along with keyboard shortcuts. And know ye, that Hanumang is THE pre-eminent (sp) keyboard shortcut KING.

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Is there a way to return to a point in a script without a repeat.
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Is this possible?

What's your aversion to repeat loops?
I concur with the 'handler' response above, but even with a handler, you're still going to need a repeat loop since you repeatedly want to ask the user if they want to run again after each run.
repeat
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display dialog "Run again?" buttons {"Cancel", "Yes"} default button "Yes"
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I am trying to make a single button into a multiple click
point. I have a movie clip on the stage and I have an invisible
button over it. The movie clip consists of a single timeline that
has an ambient animation running and looping intially. I have three
more labeled sections of that timeline that each contain a
different animated sequence as click point animations for that
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play. I want that action to be stored so that when the user clicks
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What version of Flash are you using? Telltarget is very
old... try something like this:
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myAnims = ['firstAnim','secondAnim','thirdAnim']; // these
are also frame labels
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0,
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currAnim = -1;
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current array index
myMovieClip.gotoAndPlay(myAnims[currAnim]);
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on(release){
nextAnim();
And at the end of each animation on the timeline, put:
gotoAndPlay(1);
And at the end of the ambient loop at the beginning I guess
you have that, too, so it loops.
Hope that helps

Crop image using 2 clicked points on image.

HI,
I want to crop an image based on 2 clicked points.
For ex:
this is an image to be crop:
take 1st click point as center and 2nd click point as radius and crop that part as square and forms new image.
And new image should be something like this:
This is what I want.
I have done getting center point using code below:
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private void Image_MouseLeftButtonDown_1(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
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"Portable Network Graphic (*.png)|*.png";
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imgBackground.Source = new BitmapImage(new Uri(op.FileName));
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double xAxis = 0.00;
double yAxis = 0.00;
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yAxis = center.Y;
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I hope now question is understandable.
Plz, suggest me the way to get this.
Regards,
Viswa.

Hi,
I want to do in WPF coding.
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Change of Video Frame One Sample Out of Sync with Correct Point on Timeline

Change of Video Frame One Sample Out of Sync with Correct Point on Timeline.
It has been found on the author's PC that, in Audition 3 in Multitrack View, a video file displayed in the video window will change its frame one sample later than it should do with respect to the correct point on the timeline. This has led to extra work having to be done by the author, as detailed later.
To demonstrate this issue:
Create a new multitrack session. Enable the Time and Video windows. Enable only 'Snap to Frames'.
Using an external program, render a two-frame video clip at 25fps. Let the first frame contain the letter 'A', and the second frame contain the letter 'B'. Making sure that the Display Time Format is set appropriately, in this case at 'SMPTE 25 fps (EBU)', lock this clip on the multitrack timeline, ensuring that the clip starts at time 00:00:00:00.
Create a mono audio clip of silence at 48kHz 32-bit that is two frames long. Lock it on an audio track, ensuring that the clip starts at time 00:00:00:00.
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Move the cursor forwards in time (rightwards) by one sample, so that it overlays the cue marker again. The Time window should change its display back to 00:00:00:01, whilst the Video window remains showing the letter 'A'.
Move the cursor forwards in time (rightwards) by one more sample. The Time window's display should remain at 00:00:00:01, but the Video window should now display the letter 'B'.
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The practical effect of this issue is that it has caused the author a huge amount of extra work on an 89-minute long soundtrack-for-video timeline. There were over 1100 changes of shot which the author wished to mark by placing cue markers at the beginning of every shot. This should have been a quite simple process of enabling 'Snap to Frames', stepping through the video, and laying cue markers down by pressing F8 when the shot was seen to change.
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i that has been placed on the timeline using the 'Snap to Frames' option
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The author had to manually reposition all 1100+ cue markers.
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Windows XP Professional Version 2002 SP3;
Adobe Audition 1.0 Build 3211.2;
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Adobe Audition 3.0 Build 7283.0;
ASRock 775dual-VSTA motherboard, BIOS Version P.3.00;
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Matrox G550 DualHead AGPx4 VGA card for Audition's two main work screens;
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Spinning Beach Ball When Clicking Different Points on Timeline

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I have over a gig free of memory, and my Activity Monitor shows it's all FCP when it slows to the spinning ball...
I'm under deadline and this is very time consuming. Any suggestions out there?
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Easy Setup Setting :
Timeline Setting :
(Ctrl+Zero)
Codec :
(Right or Ctrl-Click a clip in the browser and report what the 'Compressor' line states)
Sorry if you know all this - it just saves time if you don't.
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"I've taught you all I know, and still you know nothing".

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Curious (and also wondering if CS3 is different from CS4):
I was very confused until I realized that Patrick must be referring to Sequence in/out points.
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> Set your in/out points on the clip in the timeline
Jeff, can you put clip in/out point while it is in the timeline (other than dragging the end)? And if you drag the clip, then all you need to do is copy/paste.
Harm, there's no short cut to setting the in and out points your way, is there?
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Select the clip in the timeline
Go to Sequence in marker.
Add a clip marker
Go to Sequence out marker.
Add a clip marker
Double click clip (opens in Source Monitor)
go to markers and set in/out points on clip
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Hello there. I have just downloaded the trial version of Premiere Elements 12, which looks like it might have everything I want in a video editor except... it doesn't seem to have ability to set In/Out points (no button exists and hitting I/O has no affect, despite being on their list of keyboard shortcuts). I'm clearly not doing something right. Not being able to edit quickly via I/O/X feels like being in a car without a steering wheel. Please help!!

L Prickitt
I have already pointed out to you the Premiere Elements 12 ways to trim clips in Expert and Quick - including the Expert workspace Project Assets double click of file thumbnail there to bring up the Preview Window as well as the Quick workspace maneuvers.
I have observed that the I and O shortcuts work only after the Preview Windows is evoked in Expert workspace by double clicking the file in either Project Assets or on the Timeline. There are different considerations when Preview Windows is used and brought up in those two different ways - from Project Assets vs Timeline. You really do want to be double clicking the file in Expert workspace Project Assets to bring up the Preview Window for your trims.
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ATR

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Hello everybody,
I have two questions about using the Animation feature in Photoshop...
(1) Is it possible to copy, click and drag an entire set of layers in the timeline? Like, if I want to move a group of layers forward or backward in the timeline, without individually moving each layer?
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Return vector for points done of check buffer status in onboard program

Background
I am trying to develop a trigger application based on the current position of a contour profile.
I can not use breakpoints as the application is using hydraulic cylinders with analog feedback
for the primary position. In order to make sure the trigger happens relative to the motion regardless
of host load I want to run the application as an onboard program.
My idea is to read the buffer status points done and generate a pulse out as a trigger when the
points done is greater than the programmed trigger point. For example if I want to trigger on the 42
point of a 100 point profile, I would read points done of the main contour buffer. When points done
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Question
My problem is, I cannot find the order that the check buffer status VI returns the data to an onboard program
return vector. As I understand it, I need 3 variables to hold the returned data. One each for State, Backlog, and
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is there a different order?
If you could provide the return vector mapping order for all the motion VIs, it would be greatly appreciated.

Hello,
This is a very good question. I checked in the help for the LabVIEW VI, and it does not explicitly state the answer. The VI calls the FlexMotion function "flx_check_buffer_rtn". In the "NI-Motion Function Help" (Start>>Programs>>National Instruments>>NI Motion>>Documentation), the information for the functions states that it "...returns data in the following order: backlog, bufferState, and pointsDone." It also tells you the size of each of the elements. I will be filing a report so that the LabVIEW documentation includes this information in the future. I hope this helps. Take care!
Regards,
Aaron B.
National Instruments

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