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Move around a source

Finding the frame is most of marking. Everything here is remappable in Settings › Remap Hotkeys….

Play and shuttle

Key Does
Space Play or pause
L Play forward. Tap again for 2x, 4x, 8x, then back to 1x
K Pause

Shuttle audio is pitch-corrected, so a voice at 2x is still a voice. There is no reverse shuttle: J is deliberately unbound, because reverse playback stutters badly enough that it would be worse than not having it. L wrapping back to 1x is the keyboard route back down.

Step and jump

Key Does
Left / Right Step one frame
Shift+Left / Shift+Right Step ten frames
Home / End Jump to the start or end of the source
Alt+Left / Alt+Right Previous or next marker
Shift+Alt+Left / Shift+Alt+Right Previous or next shot, selecting it

That last row is worth its own sentence. It lands the playhead on each shot's in point and selects the shot as it goes, so reviewing a batch is jump, Del, jump, without touching the mouse.

Reviewing a batch without the mouse: Shift+Alt+Right lands on the next shot and selects it, Delete removes it, and again

The source timeline

The timeline under the viewer spans the whole source.

Gesture Does
Click the ruler Seek to that frame
Click a shot band Select it. Ctrl or Shift click adds to the selection
Double-click a shot band Jump the playhead to it
Click empty space Deselect everything
Drag a band, or either end Move the shot, or its in or out point
Wheel Step one frame
Ctrl wheel Pan
Alt wheel Zoom, keeping the frame under the cursor where it is
Alt middle-drag Zoom the same way: drag right to zoom in, left to zoom out

The source timeline spanning a whole video, with color-cycled bands for each marked shot, the playhead, and the transport buttons and playback range fields below it.

The source timeline: every shot as a band, with the transport and playback range fields underneath

The playback range

The two fields under the transport buttons set a playback range: the part of the source the timeline shows and playback loops within. It is a view, not an edit. It changes nothing about the source or any shot, and it is there so a long film can be worked in sections.

The bar between the fields is the range slider, laid out the way Maya's is: the outer numbers are the whole source, the inner fields are the range. Drag the bar's middle to pan the range, drag either end to resize it, and double-click it to go back to the full source. Double-click again and it returns to the range you had, the way Maya's does. Each of those, and a typed field, is one Ctrl+Z step. The reel's timeline has the same row.

Ctrl+L cycles the loop mode.