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Selecting Edits in the Timeline
A variety of editing and trimming methods require you to select an edit point, or part of an edit
point, in order to resize, ripple, or roll an edit. You can do so using the mouse or using
the keyboard.
Methods for selecting edit points using the mouse:
To select an edit to roll: Move the mouse to the center of an edit point, and when the
ripple cursor appears, click to select the edit.
Selecting an edit point to roll
To select just the incoming or outgoing half of an edit point to resize or ripple: Move
the mouse to the left or right of the center of an edit, and when the resize/ripple cursor
appears, click to select that portion of the edit.
Selecting incoming or outgoing halves
of an edit point to resize or ripple
To select multiple edit points, do one of the following:
To select multiple roll points: Command-click the center of multiple edit points.
Command-click a selected edit point to deselect it.
Command-clicking the center of several edits to prepare to roll them all
To select multiple ripple points: Command-click the left or right sides of multiple edit
points.
Command-clicking the left or right of several edits to ripple them all
To drag to select many edit points: Select the Trim tool (T), and drag a bounding-box
over the edit points you want to select. You can press U to switch all selected edit
points among rippling incoming edits, rippling outgoing edits, and rolling edits.
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