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As is always the case with Adobe programs and this is good, there are a number of ways of achieving the same goal. In this tutorial I'm going to look at the ostensibly insignificant function of zooming in and out of the Timeline, zooming in and out of the Source Monitor and zooming in an out of the Program Monitor. I say ostensibly insignificant because zooming in and out is something you'll find yourself doing frequently. We've already seen how to set Preferences for CTI Scrolling by going up here to Edit, dropping down to Preferences, going across to General and this Timeline Playback Auto-Scrolling drop down allows us to change between No Scroll, Page Scroll and, if you remember, Smooth Scroll and I'll put it back onto Page Scroll and click OK. So, this tutorial is really to establish how to zoom in and out so that scrolling, either by page or smoothly, becomes a secondary matter. If we look down on the Timeline and at this clip that we've used in the previous few tutorials of this bridge with this panning motion across the bridge, then we can see at this full view, this full resolution, that the clip is kind of tiny within the Timeline here so how do we zoom in to make this clip fill the whole of the Timeline area across here? How do we do that? Well, as I said at the beginning there are a couple of ways how to do this and the first, I suppose, is if you go across here to, can you see this little button, this little gray button here? Well, this is called the Viewing Area Bar, this gray bar that runs all the way across here is called the Viewing Area Bar. And if we look upon the Program Monitor too we've also got the same thing. It goes right across there. Just above the actual Timeline numerical sequence that runs along here and in the same way as we see it in the Sequence View here, too. Well, as I say, just click on the end there, left-click on it and just slowly drag to the left there and you can see that the actual clip itself zooms in, or enlarges, onto the screen. Probably gone a little bit too far there. And if I want to move across here but without zooming in anymore then just sort of drag it from around about the middle there; left-click in the middle and just drag the Viewing Area Bar across there. OK and drag it back again. And, of course, you can see at the left there, there is also another one - let's left-click on there and just drag that and you can see it doing pretty much a similar job there. OK? So now I can left-click in the middle and just drag along there so I can move all the way across to the end of the clip there and back again. Make sense? OK, I'll just left-click and drag it out a little bit to about there and I want to show you another method of doing this by going right down to the foot of the user interface. Can you see this little drag-slider here and there's a sort of icon there as you roll over it, it says Zoom Out and an icon to the right that says Zoom In. I'll be you can guess what these do? Well, this icon here of these, well, they look like mountains to me and this looks like a little mountain to me, if we click the Zoom In just a once, then we can see that yes, we have zoomed in. We seem to have gone off the screen here but we can just drag that and go back out again. And did you notice, when I drag this what this little icon does down here, this little Drag button? Keep your eye on this whilst I drag this and you'll notice it moves in parallel. OK? There we go. And, of course, you can go onto the Zoom Out there. Just click on there a few times and we go right out to there. So we've zoomed right out so that we can only see a little bit of the clip there. In reality it's the full length of the clip. Now, of course, in the Program Monitor it does exactly the same thing with these Drag Sliders here, this Viewing Area Bar, but we don't have the same view as we have down here in the Sequence Monitor whereby we get these Zoom In and Out buttons here. OK? Now, another method of zooming in and out is by using a shortcut that you'll find on your keyboard. If you click just the once, if you just click the Backslash Arrow on your keyboard notice what happens. We get the zooming out so that it nearly covers the whole of this Sequence Area here. And if we click it again it comes back to around about there and we can vacillate between the two, OK, however we want it to look. So if we have happened to drag this maybe too far that way just click on there and that brings it out for us. OK? Very useful and, as I said at the top of this tutorial, it appears to be insignificant but, in fact, a very useful function that you'll find yourself using more and more and more. OK, let's leave this tutorial here now that we've zoomed in and out, I'll zoom out of this tutorial. OK, see you in a bit.