Specifications
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To select or deselect a range of clips with the
Marquee:
1 Move the cursor to the left of the clip name
until the Marquee icon with a small “+” symbol
appears:
• To select clips, the Marquee should be to the left
of an unhighlighted clip name.
• To deselect clips, the Marquee should be to the
left of a highlighted clip name.
2 Click on the clip name and drag up or down (to
select or deselect clips immediately above or
below the clip name).
To select or deselect noncontiguous clips, do one
of the following:
Command-click (Mac) or Control-click
(Windows) clip names that are unhighlighted to
select them.
Command-click (Mac) or Control-click
(Windows) clip names that are highlighted to
deselect them.
Keyboard Selection of Clips
If Clip List Keyboard Focus is enabled, you can
type the first few letters of a clip’s name and
Pro Tools will automatically locate and select the
clip in the Clip List.
To enable and use the Clip List Keyboard Focus:
1 Click the Keyboard Focus button in the upper
right of the Clip List.
2 Type the first or first few letters of the clip to au-
tomatically locate and select it. Once a clip is lo-
cated and selected, it can be dragged to a track.
Keyboard selection of audio clips locates clips
based on their clip name, not on the names for their
parent audio files or the volumes on which they re-
side.
Select Options
In the Clip List, you can select specific clips so
they can be dragged to tracks, processed with Au-
dioSuite plug-ins, or exported.
To select specific clips in the Clip List:
From the Clip List menu, choose Select, and
then choose one of the
Select options:
All
Selects all clips in the Clip List.
Unused
Selects clips that have not been placed in a
track in the current session. Offline clips appear in
the Clip List italicized and dimmed.
Unused Except Whole Files
Selects clips that
have not been placed in a track in the current ses-
sion, but do not include Whole-file clips. Whole-
file clips are clips that were created when record-
ing or importing audio, consolidating existing
clips, and when nondestructively processing with
To select multiple noncontiguous clips in
the Clip List, hold Command (Mac) or
Control (Windows) when making subse-
quent selections.
Clip List Keyboard Focus enabled