User guide

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CLIPSTER Edit Tool User Guide

Selecting Clips

Clips can be selected or deselected easily in the contents area of the bin.

For this perform one of the following procedures or their combination:

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, either in the contents area of the bin or on a timeline track.

The elements in the clipboard can also be pasted into a new project.

With this you can copy or move the selected element(s) within the bin

(e.g. from folder to folder), within the timeline (e.g. between tracks or

within one track), between the bin and the timeline tracks, or vice ver-

sa. Elements such as clips pasted into the timeline will be added at the

current position of the timeline cursor. Furthermore, to paste clips to

different timeline tracks rather than the first track you have to lock the

If the contents area is empty of clips and you call up the con-

text menu, not all menu options are displayed.

How to add clips to the contents area of the bin is in detail de-

scribed in section “Adding Clips to the Bin” on page 4-6.

How to work with proxies in the bin is described in section “Us-

ing Proxies” on page 4-22.

Although the table below describes how to select clips only,

most procedures can be used to deselect clips as well.

Individual clips Individual clips can be selected with a click of the

mouse on the respective clip.

Several clips Several clips can be selected disjointedly when click-

ing them while holding down the [Ctrl] key at the

same time.

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

one clip (the starting clip) and afterwards holding

down the [Shift] key while clicking the clip that marks

the end of the range.

All clips All clips displayed in the contents area can be select-

ed in one step either with the menu option Select all

of the context menu or the keyboard shortcut

[Ctrl + A] (when the contents area has the focus).