Navigating the Timeline

Moving forward and back on the timeline moves you forward and back through time in your project. The timeline cursor marks the position in time of the project and is the focus of any actions that you take. For example, when you press the Play button, the project begins playing back the project from the timeline cursor s position, If you paste a loop into a project, it will be pasted at the timeline cursor s position. Clicking anywhere in the timeline area moves the timeline cursor to that position. 

You can navigate the timeline by using the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the timeline. This allows you to view different parts of the project and is independent of the timeline cursor (that is, the timeline cursor does not always need to be on the screen). 

The wheel in the center of a Windows mouse is referred to as the mouse wheel, wheel button, or scroll wheel. Many Windows applications now take advantage of the mouse wheel for scrolling and zooming. While I don t want to seem like a mouse salesman, I must say that once you ve used a mouse with a wheel, you ll wonder how you ever lived without it. This is doubly true for ACID 3.0. 

Eventually, a project will have enough tracks stacked up so that it will be difficult to conveniently view all of them at once. In this situation, you will also need to move up and down through the various tracks in a project. 

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These shortcuts allow you to navigate the timeline without using the mouse. Many of these shortcuts also work in the Chopper and Track Properties windows. ... 

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