Adjust · How much? · it remembers
Element 31
Set where in the timeline of the work.
scrubber · jog wheel · fast forward
First known
Opened
1978Sony's one-inch VTR: one knob shuttles the tape fast and jogs it frame by frame, so the editor sets the spot. CBS edit room.
See also: QuickTime's movie controller slider (December 1991), then CD-deck jog wheels (1994).
“the single knob that provides both th[e] high-speed shuttle function and the low-speed jog function on the Sony VTR”
The jog wheel came from 1970s video editing. QuickTime and DJ decks inherited it; they did not invent it.
Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.
- ReadingValue
Specimen № 31 — operate freely
Get near a clap with the bar, land on its spike with the wheel, then mark it.
Fig. 31 — Scrub
000 readings · idle
Down the Adjust column
Read down and Dial gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.
Bodies
The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Scrub takes.
- scrubber
- jog wheel
- fast forward
From the 2021 table
This was a tile of its own. On this table it is a form of Scrub, and its old address lands here.
- Fast ForwardAllotropeThe same act with another response curve.