Answers.Body: <p>Make sure you are not have Transform, Crop or Distort icon active under the player. This disables skimming until you deselect it.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Using Final Cut Pro X 10.4.5 (Macos Mojave 10.14), I notice that sometimes the timeline pointer is white, then red. With the timeline pointer I mean the point in the timeline where I've clicked, and where a vertical line appears. I don't know the proper name for it. </p>
  
  <p>Anyway, when this line is white, skimming the timeline works. When it's red, skimming doesn't work. If I click on the film strip, selecting it, then the line goes to white and skimming does work again.</p>
  
  <p>I don't know why the line goes red. I suppose I do something that changes this, but I have no idea what it is. </p>
  
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Title: Timeline skimming while pointer is red or white
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ThreadText: # Timeline skimming while pointer is red or white
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-01-21)
  
  Using Final Cut Pro X 10.4.5 (Macos Mojave 10.14), I notice that sometimes the timeline pointer is white, then red. With the timeline pointer I mean the point in the timeline where I've clicked, and where a vertical line appears. I don't know the proper name for it.
  
  Anyway, when this line is white, skimming the timeline works. When it's red, skimming doesn't work. If I click on the film strip, selecting it, then the line goes to white and skimming does work again.
  
  I don't know why the line goes red. I suppose I do something that changes this, but I have no idea what it is.
  
  **Tags:** final-cut-pro-x
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-01-22. Score: 2
  
  Make sure you are not have Transform, Crop or Distort icon active under the player. This disables skimming until you deselect it.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: Thank you, that was exactly the problem i was having.  
  
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