Extra Menu: Seek

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The Extra > Seek menu provides menu equivalents for the short and long seek commands.
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These commands skip the playback cursor backwards (left) or forwards (right) by a short or long period of time. You can change the length of the default short or long period to be skipped at "Seek Time when playing" in the Playback Preferences.
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You cannot seek backwards to left of the current position of the playback cursor.

Short Seek Left During Playback  Left

Moves play head left by 1 second.

Short Seek Right During Playback  Right

Moves play head right by 1 second.

Long Seek Left During Playback  Shift + Left

Moves play head left by 15 seconds.

Long Seek Right During Playback  Shift + Right

Moves play head right by 15 seconds.