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Making Selections in the Timeline
Once you’ve assembled a sequence of clips in the Timeline, you’ll probably need to manipulate them further, moving, deleting, trimming, or otherwise adjusting the clips in the Timeline to make the edit play with the pacing and verve you require.
Manually Selecting Clips in the Timeline
Many operations require you to make a selection first, to define the scope of what you’re about to do. There are many ways to do so.
— To select one clip: Click a clip with the mouse.
— To select all clips under the playhead: You can select all the clips under the playhead at once, regardless of how many tracks they are spread across by selecting Trim > Select All Clips Under Playhead (Option-Shift-V).
— To select a continuous range of clips by dragging: Drag a bounding box from an empty area of the Timeline to surround a group of clips.
Dragging a bounding box to select a continuous range of clips in the Timeline
— To select a continuous range of clips by Shift-clicking: Click the first clip you want to select, and then Shift-click the last clip you want to select, and all clips in-between will automatically be selected as well.
— To select a discontinuous range of clips: Command-click any clips to select them no matter where they appear on the Timeline. Command-clicking a selected clip deselects it.
Command-clicking to select a discontinuous range of clips in the Timeline