basic selecting clips question

[Joe Marler]

[Michael Reilly] “I’m new to final cut pro x and I had a question about selecting clips in the time line.

in premiere there is a shortcut that allows you to grab all of the clips in front of the playhead, i think the command is TT. is there a similar shortcut like this in final cut pro x? “

What is your goal for doing this? Is it to move that group and insert a gap clip? If so you can do that with OPT+W.

If you want to select all clips before or after the playhead, you can do that with the timeline index. Do SHIFT+CMD+2 to enable the index, the current playhead position is marked on the index, then select all clips before or after. Or in the timeline you could shrink to fit with SHIFT+Z, then just lasso all those before or after.

Other related timeline shortcut commands:

Blade all layers at current playhead or skimmer location: SHIFT+CMD+B: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph12724?locale=en_US

Extend all layers of selected clips: CTRL+ D and set a longer duration (type +10 for 10 frames, or +10. for 10 sec), make sure all layers are selected, then OPT + ] will trim all your clips to the playhead.

In general the best workflow in FCPX is not dumping a lot of stuff on the timeline early in the edit. Rather first carefully curate and tag the material in the Event Browser using favorites, rejects and keywords, then query that with the available tools. If you want stringouts or specific sequences, put those in a compound clip which becomes a skimmable item in the Event Browser.

With FCPX there is a separate concept of range vs clip selection. Often in FCPX you deal with ranges not clips. There are many shortcut commands to mark and adjust ranges:
https://support.apple.com/guide/final-cut-pro/set-multiple-ranges-in-the-browser-veradbf2dce/mac

Other timeline index features in MacBreak Studio #442:
https://youtu.be/0dqcuBUVXjc

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[Michael Reilly]

thanks so much for the reply on this. great information, thanks for sharing