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Overriding Automatic Selections by
Making Manual Selections
It’s important to note that manual selections that you make which highlight specific clips in the
Timeline always override whatever the Auto Select control of a track is set to. In the following
example, three clips are superimposed and the Auto Select control of every track except V2
has been turned off. Setting Timeline In and Out points now automatically defines that region of
the clip on track V2 to be deleted were you to press the Delete key. You can see the affected
part of the Timeline because it’s highlighted while the rest of the Timeline is dimmed.
Soloing the Auto Select control on track V2 to limit a Delete operation
However, if you clicked the clip on track V1 to select it manually, the automatic selection defined
by the In and Out points disappears in favor of the highlighted clip you just clicked. This is
because manual selections almost always take precedence over automatic selections you
define using the In and Out points and Auto Select controls.
Making a manual selection overrides the Auto Select controls
This is good to keep in mind for situations where the fastest way to do the operation you need
to do is to simply manually select the clip you want to define the operation.
Using Auto Select Controls to Control Other Operations
Other operations that are affected by the Auto Select controls include any command that uses
the clip on the lowest-numbered track with Auto Select enabled” to define what happens. This
includes Copy and Paste, Mark Clip, Go To Next Edit/Previous Edit, the Selection Follows
Playhead mode, Next Gap/Previous Gap, and so on (a full list of affected operations
appears later).
A common example of when this is important is whenever you use the Mark Clip command to
automatically set In and Out points to match the duration of a clip on the Timeline. If that clip
happens to be at a section of the Timeline where there are multiple superimposed clips, each
of which has a different duration, then by default the In and Out points (first and last frames) of
the clip on the lowest numbered track is used to set Timeline In and Out points when you use
Mark Clip.
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