4 main windows:

• Browser: Database (list of all the different clips you’ve brought into your project, sequences you’ve created, and qualities about them)
• Viewer: Preview window (where you view clips to decide if you want to put them in your video, set ins/outs etc)
• Canvas: Video window (shows your video according to its current state on the timeline)
• Timeline: Shows the plan or layout of the sequence you’re working on. It holds sequences, which hold clips.

Useful Keyboard Shortcuts:
i sets in point
o sets out point
option x removes in/out point

space bar plays sequence in timeline starting at the location of the playhead
home key- playhead to beginning of sequence
end key playhead to end of sequence
up arrow key forward one shot at a time
down arrow key back one shot at a time
left arrow key back one frame at a time
right arrow key forward one frame at a time

control u reset windows to default layout
Shift z fits sequence in window
Shift option z fits selection in window

m- creates a marker in the viewer or timeline (when a clip is selected, in the clip, or in the timeline with no clip selected)
shift m- next marker (only when the clip is selected)
option m- previous marker (only when the clip is selected)

Can also navigate by absolute time code in the timeline or canvas. Time code is Hours, minutes, seconds, frames.

Editing with clips:

• Clips to the timeline: drag to timeline, or drag to canvas, or click red envelope on canvas (red is to overwrite, yellow is to insert). Once you have a clip on the timeline, you can drag it forward or backward, one at a time or multiple clips at once.

• Master Clip: The master clip is first time a clip appears in the browser (can have in, out) and only one name, tied directly to a file of the same name on your scratch disk.

Markers:
• Clip Markers: Useful for editing clips to a soundtrack. Open your audio file in the viewer, and use the keyboard shortcut m to create a marker on important beats.
• **When you edit audio to the timeline, it’s a good rule of thumb to start it 5-10 frames late so it doesn’t get cropped when you export**
• When you edit your audio to the timeline, the markers will show up to help you edit sound & video together. If you want to move between markers in the timeline with keyboard shortcuts, or add markers in the timeline, your clip must be selected.
• Timeline markers: With no clip selected, keyboard shortcut m will create a marker at the location of the playhead. Can edit this marker by clicking on it, typing m.