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  • Selecting a clip on timeline with keyboard?

    Posted by Fırat Bakır on September 26, 2011 at 10:25 am

    Is there a keyboard shortcut for selecting a clip in the timeline if you don’t already have one selected? And possibly changing which clip is selected after one is already selected; like using the arrow keys or something?

    Andrew Hays replied 13 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Jerry Hofmann

    September 26, 2011 at 4:14 pm

    Sorry, no… you need to select it with the selection tool. You can jump from clip to clip, you can even jump from edit to edit point, but not from one clip selection to another.

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  • Brent Hannigan

    September 26, 2011 at 6:37 pm

    You can select a clip without the mouse by using the track selection tool to isolate the track where the clip is – then mark in and out and then Option-A to select the clip. A bit cumbersome but I was bored one day and wanted to figure how to do this in case I lost the desire to use a mouse. As far as flipping from clip to clip – not sure except to repeat this process.

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  • Fırat Bakır

    September 27, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    if i remember rigt there is a shortcut key on avid “t” , its a long way to reach clip “x” to mark “opt – a” to select, any easier way?

  • Brent Hannigan

    September 27, 2011 at 10:18 pm

    This is the only way I know.

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  • Andrew Hays

    September 6, 2012 at 4:11 am

    Never mind… delete this post, I thought this was for FCPX rather than FCP7…

    ..and knowing is half the battle.

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