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The Timeline

6.4.3 Cutting, Copying or Pasting Clips

Bin clips and timeline elements can be cut or copied to the clipboard of

the operating system and afterwards pasted again at the location of

your choice. Further information about this can be found in section

“Cutting, Copying or Pasting Clips” on page 4-18.

6.4.4 Adding Clips of a Certain Length to the Timeline

If you want to fill a gap in the timeline or fill a particular part of the

timeline with other video or audio material, you can add a clip to the

timeline with the help of the timeline’s in- and outpoint (3-point and 4-

point editing). This will then fill the selected, particular part of the time-

line.

To add a clip of a certain length to a particular part of the timeline per-

form the following:

y Move the timeline cursor to the position on the timeline where the

clip to be added should start (see also section “Moving within the

Timeline” on page 6-29).

y Click the inpoint button of the timeline area ( ).

This will set the inpoint of the timeline to the current position of the

timeline cursor.

Range of clips A range of adjoining clips can be selected by

clicking one clip (the starting clip) and after-

wards holding down the [Shift] key while click-

ing the clip that marks the end of the range.

You can also select a range of clips by drawing

a rectangle with the mouse over the clips that

you want to select. The starting point of the

rectangle has to be on an empty part of the

timeline track.

Figure 6-39: Drawing a selection rectangle

All clips All clips in the timeline area can be selected in

one step by using the menu option Select all

of a timeline track’s context menu.