Amadeus Pro > Editing Index

5.1 Navigation

The first thing anyone would like to do when editing a file is of course to find one’s way around the file. The two most obvious ways of navigating through a sound are the Horizontal zoom slider that allows you to change the timescale and the horizontal scrollbar located just below the timescale.

However, there are many other ways to finding your way around a document. These are:

• The Markers palette already mentioned in the previous section.
• The [+] and [–] key shortcuts that allow to zoom in and out of the document.
• The Zoom In / Zoom Out items in the toolbar (if they are not there and you happen to need them, just choose Customize Toolbar in the View menu). There are corresponding menu items in the View menu.
• The Zoom to Selection item in the View menu changes the display in such a way that the selected portion of the current track just about fills up the display. If the selection is empty, the waveform is expanded to the maximum (1sample = 1pixel) and it is moved in such a way that the insertion point is located at the center of the display. The Zoom to Document item in the same menu has a similar effect, but changes the zoom level so that the entire document neatly fits into the window.
• The scroll wheel of your mouse also allows you to zoom in and out of a document. If your mouse has a horizontal scroll wheel as well (like Apple’s Mighty Mouse or the two finger scrolling feature on the trackpads of recent laptops) you can use it to move the document horizontally. There is a hidden preference that allows you to exchange the behaviour of the horizontal and the vertical scroll wheel, see Section 10.
• The Move to Selection and Move to Playback menu commands move the display (without changing the timescale) in such a way that the center of the selection (or the playback head) is at the center of the display.
• The keys [1] to [4] allow you to set the zoom level to one of four predefined values. You can set the value corresponding to a key to the current zoom level by typing [Option][1], [Option][2], etc.