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Overriding Automatic Selections by Making Manual Selections
It’s important to note that manual selections that you make which highlight specific clips in the Timeline always override whatever the Auto Select control of a track is set to. In the following example, three clips are superimposed and the Auto Select control of every track except V2 has been turned off. Setting Timeline In and Out points now automatically defines that region of the clip on track V2 to be deleted were you to press the Delete key. You can see the affected part of the Timeline because it’s highlighted while the rest of the Timeline is dimmed.
Soloing the Auto Select control on track V2 to limit a Delete operation
However, if you clicked the clip on track V1 to select it manually, the automatic selection defined by the In and Out points disappears in favor of the highlighted clip you just clicked. This is because manual selections almost always take precedence over automatic selections you define using the In and Out points and Auto Select controls.
Making a manual selection overrides the Auto Select controls
This is good to keep in mind for situations where the fastest way to do the operation you need to do is to simply manually select the clip you want to define the operation.