Is there a way to highlight a clip without clicking with the mouse?

[Itamar Kool]

[Chi-Ho Lee] “And it would be even nicer if all the FCP programming teams were hot smart bikini models who will make house calls once a month. “

I just need one of these models to do the clicking for me while I sit back and mumble “click!” or something else

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[Itamar Kool]

Why?? You could selet the track with a function button, and then hit the ‘select clip’ button.

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[Zak Mussig]

X, option-A, ‘nuf said

[Steve Braker]

Pure genius. Concise, too.

[Misha Aranyshev]

Command-A highlights a clip if Canvas is the active window. Using In and Out is more pricse and flexible especially after you realise it is not necessary to highlight clips for most of the operations.

[Gary Alan]

that’s 3 keystrokes, not 1

[Andreas Karoliussen]

Hi All,

I vote for the bikini models, however I don’t think I would get much work done that way…
Thank you for all your good answers, option A and up down arrows is my future.
Ive tried a tablet Walter, and for some features its great, but not always; so i switch sometimes, and then it will be great to have the “X, option-A” alternative.

Thanks Again, Ive been missing this feature.

Best regards Andreas

[Itamar Kool]

X, Option A… Wow

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[Bret Williams]

And how did it know which clip to pick in your 23 layered file? Let’s see, auto select that layer (how many keystrokes is that?), oh and don’t forget the playhead has to be there (navigate with jkl, how many keystrokes?), now press x, now press option+a, now what? Add a filter? Good God. No wonder people think keyboard only avid-type editors are fast. They sure look fast (and they better be) when it takes 10-20 keystrokes to do what one mouse click can do. God forbid one had leave the keyboard to replace 15 keyboard strokes with one mouse movement or click. If all these keyboard strokes is what you’re doing that is so important that you wouldn’t want to move your hand to the mouse, ya’ll are nuts. There’s a reason the invention of the mouse improved productivity like a zillion million percent (look it up if you don’t believe me). I’m a firm beleiver in the old mouse keyboard combo. Or pen/keyboard. But a pointing device is where it’s at. Walter mentions pen tablets and they have some great features in that you can program all sorts of stuff into their own regions and buttons. Shortcut keys are great when they’re just that. A shortcut. But trying to do everything with the keyboard is just a challenge, not a shortcut. Blah humbug. 🙂

[Bret Williams]

Yeah, probably more like 15 by the time you’re don’t using the keyboard to navigate and autoselect the tracks, etc. See above light-hearted rant. 🙂