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Clearing a group

You can ungroup all events by clearing the entire group. Clearing a group does not remove events from your project.

Right-click one of the members of the group.

From the shortcut menu, choose Group, and choose Clear from the submenu.

Selecting all members of a group

While grouped events move together within their tracks, selecting one member of a group does not automatically select every

member of that group.

Right-click one of the members of the group.

From the shortcut menu, choose Group, and choose Select All from the submenu.

With all events in a group selected, you can move the group to other tracks, or cut and paste the group to a new location.

Suspending grouping temporarily

You can temporarily suspend the grouping behavior of all groups (including video media files with included audio streams) by

clicking the Ignore Event Grouping ( ) button.

Cutting, copying, or deleting grouped events

Select the events you want to cut or delete.

From the Edit menu, choose Group, and choose Cut All, Copy All, or Delete All from the submenu. The selected events and

any events that are grouped with the selected events are deleted or copied/cut to the clipboard.

Using sync links

Sync links are like one-way event groups. An event stays synchronized with the event to which it is linked, but not the other way

around. Linked events do not contribute to the affected tracks for ripple editing. Sync links are useful for keeping additional audio

mix and video composite elements synchronized with the main events in your project.

Linked events are displayed shorter and vertically aligned with the synchronized event. When you select an event that has linked

events, the linked events are outlined in purple.

Creating a sync link

Select the events you want to link.

Right-click the event that should be the synchronized event and choose Create Sync Link with Selected Events from the

shortcut menu.

Note:

When the Cut, copy, and delete grouped events check box on the Editing tab of the Preferences dialog is selected, cutting,

copying, or deleting an event will affect all events in the same group.

In this example, the events on track 2 are linked with the event on track 1.

When you move the event on track 1, the events on track 2 will stay synchronized.

You can move the linked events on track 2 without affecting the location of the event on track 1.