Blackmagic Video Assist User Manual Playback
The transport controls can be found on the lower toolbar. If your lower toolbar is hidden from view, simply swipe the screen up or down to reveal it.
Play |  | To play your clips, tap the ‘play’ icon. |
Stop |  | During playback, tap the ‘stop or ‘pause’ icon to momentarily ‘freeze’ playback on a frame of video. |
Skip |  | You can skip backwards or forwards through your clips by repeatedly tapping the forward or reverse skip icons. Tapping reverse skip once will restart the current clip. |
Shuttle |  | Hold down one of the skip buttons to change into shuttle mode. Now you can fast forward or rewind by tapping either shuttle button through speeds from x1/2 to x50. Press the stop or play button to revert the buttons back to skip mode. |
📘TIP Scrub clips forwards or backwards by dragging the scrubbing slider left or right, or by swiping the screen to jog through the video.
Jog forwards or backwards by swiping the video left or right.
You can choose to display skip buttons or the histogram in the lower toolbar. When the ‘display histogram’ option in the setup tab of the dashboard menu is switched ‘on’, only the ‘record’, ‘play’ and ‘stop’ buttons will be visible.
Looping playback
Loop |  | Once your clip is playing, press the ‘play’ button again to set your video assist to play the current clip on a continuous loop. |
Loop all |  | Tap ‘play’ again to play all your recorded clips on a continuous loop. |
Play |  | Tap again to return to real time playback. |
When in loop mode, the timeline will zoom in to the active clip. Now you have greater control to scrub though the clip using the playhead.
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