Media dialog

There are several ways to display the media for a selected clip at full size:

• Use the Play Media command (or toolbar button), from either the main window or clip details dialog, to play selected clips one at a time. (You can also use the keyboard shortcut Cmd/Ctrl-P, or define a double click action of Media preview in Preferences and double click a clip to play its media).
• Use the Present Movie command to present the selected clips combined into a single sequence that plays smoothly as a whole (this is mainly intended for video clips).
• Use the Run Slide Show command to present the selected clips as a slide show of individual clips (this is mainly intended for stills and audio clips).

All these options use the media dialog to show the media, either in a window or full screen. Double click or press Escape to close the media dialog. The next topic lists various other keyboard shortcuts you can use to control the media as it's playing.

There are a number of Preferences options that control how media is played, eg. the slide show delay.