Preview before exporting

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Hello,
Have to make some repairs on a full movie video (about two hours).
How can I preview a small section, to see if I’m getting the right results, before exporting the whole video ?
(To save trial & error time)
Answers will be appreciated.
Thanks
Motim
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  1. Save your mlt project file. If not create an mlt project file.
  2. In the timeline, right click and choose “Copy Timeline to Source” or use the shortcut Ctl+Alt+C.
  3. With your timeline now copied to the Source tab, pick the start and end of the section you want to export by pressing I and O.
  4. Go to the Export menu and make sure it has “Source” selected where it says “From”.
  5. Export.
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Hello,
Thanks for the answer.
Right-click on the timeline gives only “Copy”, not “Copy to Source”. So from here on there is nothing I can do.
I would like to make a comment:
There is a program named “Handbrake”, to add subtitles to a movie. It has the option to preview (with one click) a small section to verify that everything is ok before saving the whole movie.
Thanks anyway.
Motim

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Select the track header then right click.

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That only happens because you are right clicking on top of a clip in the timeline. Right click on the timeline away from any clips on the timeline and you will get a separate menu that has the menu I am talking about that @sauron showed above .

There is another way to get to that menu and that’s by clicking on the menu icon that is right under the word “Timeline”:

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