Linking onscreen cursor to timeline location

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I have been given the task of simulating an as yet unwritten app, that behaves like a basic video editor. I need to have a timeline of thumbnails below the main image. In order to speed up the fx work on different clips, i was wondering if anyone knows of a way that i could link the position of a cursor to a specific time on the video clip.

I want to put a fake finger on the thumbnails and the video clip jumps to the corresponding time. I feel its probably something achievable with Expressions, but my knowledge of such things is very basic.

Can anyone suggest possible ways to achieve this?

thanks

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Depending on your resolution you can link the x position of an axis to the slip value of your clip.
I would use a mux node to control the slip. So the expression for the slip value be:

Slip = action_name.axis_cursor.position.x

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thanks Sinan…i’ll explore that right away!

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just what i needed - thanks Sinan