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In Video Editor mode hitting Alt+A starts playback from the beginning of the timeline.
How to start playing the video from the green cursor?

(I found this question asked on reddit by nightmareFluffy, but it is too late to answer it there. It's one of the most basic things for video editing and I could not find an answer to it anywhere so I'm posting this question here for others to find.)
My version is 2.79

Michał Lepczyński
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  • With the current default installation from 2.80 on (left-click-select), the Playback shortcut is Spacebar. Alt+A is reserved for Deselecting. – Husch Oct 28 '20 at 09:20
  • I have 2.79 should've specified that - spacebar opens some dialogue to pick an action. Thanks for the tip, I'll upgrade I guess : ) – Michał Lepczyński Oct 29 '20 at 16:03

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From the Timeline editor's bottom menu select Playback and tick Follow.
Then Alt+A will play from the cursor.

Michał Lepczyński
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Even with those controls, I couldn't get Blender to play from the beginning of my clip. Why? The video timestamp that I was trying to play from was outside the "frame range" in the sequencer. As a result, it bumped the playback start time to the beginning of the current frame range, which was the beginning of the video.

To fix: In the sequencer, clicking View -> Range -> Set Frame Range to Strips extended the frame range to the full strip. Once I did this, I was able to play from any point in the strip.

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