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Previewing movies in the authoring environment

To preview movies, you use commands in the Control menu, buttons on the Controller, or keyboard commands.

To preview the current scene, do one of the following:

| Choose Control > Play.
| Choose Window > Toolbars > Controller (Windows) or Window > Controller (Macintosh) and click Play.
| Press Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh). The animation sequence plays at the frame rate you specified for the document.
| To step through the frames of the animation, use the Step Forward and Step Backward buttons on the Controller, or choose those commands from the Control menu. You can also press the < and > keys on the keyboard.
| To jump to the first or last frame in a movie using the Controller, use the First Frame or Last Frame button.
| Note: You can also drag the playhead to view frames in a document. See Moving the playhead.

You can modify movie playback using commands in the Control menu. When using the following commands, you must also choose Control > Play to preview the movie.

To play the movie in a continuous loop:

Choose Control > Loop Playback.

To play all the scenes in a movie:

Choose Control > Play All Scenes.

To play a movie without sound:

Choose Control > Mute Sounds.

To enable frame actions or button actions:

Choose Control > Enable Simple Frame Actions or Enable Simple Buttons.