Play by hovering the cursor over the timeline
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Submitted by David Prieto Assigned to David Prieto @frandavid100
Description
While playing with pitivi, I've realised it really could use a feature I recently saw in OSX's video editor (the name of which I fail to remember).
This program had a preview window, just like Pitivi, and a timeline just like Pitivi. But there was a difference: hovering the cursor over the timeline would show that specific frame in the preview, and moving it left or right would "rewind" or "fast forward" the video.
Other information:
This feature would be great, for example to use the "cut" tool. You could select the tool, then move the cursor on the video and watch what exactly goes on on the frame you're at. When you find the exact frame you're after, you click and cut the video.
It's also great to have a general overview of the whole project, since you can move left or right freely to go over uninteresting parts of the video, and stop the mouse over the parts you want to examine closely.
If there's something about enabling it by default, maybe there could be a button in the playback controls. When pressed, it would enable this. We could call it "follow mode" or something like that.
Imported from https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585720