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Making Selections in the Timeline
Once you’ve assembled a sequence of clips in the Timeline, you’ll probably need to manipulate
them further, moving, deleting, trimming, or otherwise adjusting the clips in the Timeline to
make the edit play with the pacing and verve you require.
Manually Selecting Clips in the Timeline
Many operations require you to make a selection first, to define the scope of what you’re about
to do. There are many ways to do so.
Selections you can make using the mouse:
To select one clip: Click a clip with the mouse.
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.
Dragging a bounding box to select a continuous range of clips in the Timeline
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.
Command-clicking to select a discontinuous range of clips in the Timeline
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