Preview player

The Preview panel plays the current frame at the playhead. The modal preview player plays the entire storyboard or a selected range from the timeline with clean playback controls. This page covers both.

The inline preview

The Preview panel docked into your workspace shows the current frame whenever the playhead sits inside a clip. Playback controls below the frame:

• Play / Pause: space bar.
• Scrub bar: click or drag to seek.
• Timecode: current time / total duration.
• Narrator volume and Video volume sliders (see Audio and mixing).
• Open full player: top-right button, launches the modal.

J / K / L playback

Classic NLE shuttle controls from video editing:

• J: rewind 5 seconds.
• K: pause.
• L: play forward.

Press L multiple times to increase playback speed (where supported). Space is a shorter form of toggle play/pause.

The modal preview player

Click the expand button on the inline preview (or the Play full sequence button) to open the modal player. It takes over the screen with a clean playback surface:

• Play / Pause center button.
• Progress bar with scene-boundary ticks. Click to seek; each tick is the start of a scene.
• Previous / Next scene buttons to jump between scene boundaries.
• Volume slider.
• Fullscreen toggle.
• Deliver opens the MP4 export workflow (see below).
• Close (X or Esc).

Video placement during playback

The preview player respects each scene's video placement setting from Scene Mode (Loop, Start, End, Middle, Custom). Inside the scene's duration, it plays the motion video in the configured window and shows the static image outside that window. This matches what the final export will look like.

Exporting to MP4

In desktop Chrome, open Deliver, choose the timeline resolution and whether to include audio, then click Download. Fawna composites the saved timeline locally and downloads an MP4. The Preview panel does not need to be open. Settings:

• Video: H.264 at 30 FPS in an .mp4 container.
• Audio: optional AAC; select No audio for a silent file.
• Duration: the full saved timeline.
• Compatibility: Fawna checks the selected H.264/AAC encoder configuration before enabling export.

WebM is visible as a disabled Coming soon format and cannot be selected.

Previewing library assets

Clicking any Library tile loads that asset into the inline preview pane (video plays, audio plays, image shows). Right-click on the preview pane and pick Close library preview to return to the timeline playhead view.

This makes the preview a one-click audition surface: click through candidates in the Library, find the one you want, drag to the timeline.

Dismissing the preview

Click outside the library panel to dismiss the asset preview back to the timeline view. The preview player modal closes on Escape or by clicking its backdrop.

Where to go next

• Keyboard shortcuts for every shortcut in the editor.
• Image & Video Generation for generating assets outside the editor.