User Manual

Making Selections
As you continue to work in the Cut page, it becomes increasingly helpful to know how to make
different kinds of selections, both in the Media Pool and in the Timeline. Most of these methods
of selection should be familiar to you if you have experience with other media applications or
file managers.
Methods of selecting clips in the Media Pool:
 To select a single clip: Click a clip in the Media Pool. Once you’ve selected a clip, you
can use the Up and Down arrow keys to move the selection to other clips.
 To select a contiguous range of clips: Drag a selection box over all the clips you want
to select, or click to select the first clip in a series, then Shift-click the last clip to select
those clips and everything in between.
 To select a noncontiguous range of clips: Command-click each clip you want to
include in the selection. Or, you can hold the Command key down while you drag
bounding boxes over unselected clips to add them to the current selection, or over
selected clips to remove them from the selection.
 To select all clips: Select one clip, then choose Edit > Select All (Command-A).
Methods of selecting clips in the Timeline:
 To select one clip: Click a clip with the mouse. Command-clicking that clip de-selects it.
 To de-select all clips in the Timeline: Click in any empty area of the Timeline to
de-select everything, or press Command-Shift-A.
 To select a continuous range of clips by dragging: Drag a bounding box from an
empty area of the Timeline to surround a group of clips.
 To select a continuous range of clips by Shift-clicking: Click the first clip you want to
select, and then Shift-click the last clip you want to select, and all clips in-between will
automatically be selected as well.
 To select a discontinuous range of clips: Command-click any clips to select them
no matter where they appear on the Timeline. Command-clicking a selected clip
deselects it.
 To select all clips in the Timeline from the playhead forward: Right-click the top
handle of the playhead, and click the right button on the radial menu that appears.
 To select all clips in the Timeline from the playhead backward: Right-click the top
handle of the playhead, and click the left button on the radial menu that appears.
The radial menu that appears
when you right-click the top
handle of the playhead
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