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Another set of rules govern what happens when you select clips or edits for trimming
on tracks with Auto Select disabled:
 Selected Tracks with Auto Select turned off with an edit selection: If you select the
outgoing or incoming half of an edit on a track that has Auto Select off, the result will be
a resize operation. Ripple deleting clips leaves a gap.
Before and After, clips to the right of Music Cue 03 on tracks V1, V2, A1, and A2 are rippling
because Auto Select is enabled on those tracks, but because the clip being trimmed on
track A3 has Auto Select disabled, it doesn’t ripple, instead resizing to open up a gap
Trimming Multiple Edits or Clips at Once
DaVinci Resolve lets you select multiple edit points or clips for certain trimming operations,
making it possible to trim multiple edits and clips at the same time. In simple cases, this makes it
easy to resize, ripple, slip, and slide several superimposed clips at the same time, which is a real
convenience, or you can select the In point of every title generator in a credit sequence at once
in preparation for shortening or lengthening them all at once. In more complicated cases, this
lets you create more complicated trimming scenarios, such as multi-track asymmetric trimming,
to quickly take care of difficult tasks.
No matter how ambitious a trim operation you want to set up, the procedure is exactly the same
as for an ordinary trim operation. Just make sure you follow these three general steps, and
you’ll be good:
1 Choose Selection mode, and select the edit points or clips you want to trim. To make
multiple selections, click once to select the first item, then Command-click each
subsequent item you want to add to the selection. You can select as many clips and/or
edit points on as many tracks as you like.
2 To ripple, slip, or slide the entire selection at once, choose Trim mode. To resize or
move each selected item at once, continue using Selection mode.
3 Use the mouse, keyboard shortcuts, or timecode entry to execute the trimming
operation, just as you would if a single edit point or clip were selected.
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