Using Dorico Elements 5.1.51 and I’m not sure I’m using the right terminology to describe what I can’t do.
I imported an old silent video into a Dorico project, and I get that where the playhead is, I see the video at that time. I want to click on a note in the score and get the video to move there, or move the playhead (I’m guess that’s what it is that puts us were we are in the music and the video) like perhaps as precisely as frame by frame. Why would I want that? I’m trying to synch events in the video to notes played, like when something lands on the ground, or matching a new sound or silence to a “cut to”. I can’t seem to do that.
What am I missing? I’m sure it’s something simple or elementary or obvious and that the problem is incompetence.
Maybe take a look at scrub playback. It is the speaker-like icon to the right of the metronome in Dorico’s menu bar. When scrub playback is enabled, the playhead moves with your mouse (for example) and the video will follow. There are options to scrub with arrow keys too.
Sometimes the quick and dirty is to click the note you want and press “P” twice in quick succession. The first “P” starts playback from that note, the second P" immediately stops it, so it effectively does what you asked for about moving the video to a note in the score. Then maybe scrub if you need to be a little more precise.
In Edit > Preferences > Key Commands, the commands Play > Next frame and Play > Previous frame have shortcuts which allow you to move the video forward or backward frame by frame. In Edit > Preferences > Play > Playhead, there is an option to Show playhead when stopped to help you synchronize the music to the video while moving frame by frame.
I’ve often wondered how do to this on Windows, where Alt-P opens the “Script” menu instead. Sometimes I’ve needed to move the playhead to the selection, but the hotkey I’m guessing only works on MacOS, so on Windows I’ve always just hit P and then stopped right away before it started playing.
I could probably remap it to another hotkey - it’s just a bit strange that the default hotkey is mapped to one that doesn’t work at all because it triggers the “Script” menu instead.
Each of the above replies worked for me. I’m not sure if this is what you’re trying to do, but I’m using Ctrl + F9 or Ctrl + F7 to move frame by frame.
I wanted to click the “solution” thing on each of the suggestions, as they each got the job done, but it seems as solutions are like the Highlander and there can only be one. Thank you everyone!