Keyboard Shortcut – Selecting a clip in timeline?

[John Fishback]

I’m not in front of my machine at the moment, but believe the : and ” keys will jump the playhead forward (“) or backward (:) to the start or end of the next/prior clip.

John

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[Rob Grauert]

yes, you’re right. That’s not what I’m looking for though. I want to actually be able to select a clip so I can use the < and > keys to move clips around.

Thank though

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[John Fishback]

There’s the shuffle or swap edit, but you still need the mouse. I don’t know of a way to select a clip and then use a keyboard command to move it in the timeline.

John

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[Rob Grauert]

hmm…oh well. It’s not THAT big of a deal. Thanks anyway

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[Kevin Monahan]

Make sure your the track is auto selected for your clip first. Type X to “Mark Clip” then type Control – A to select between in and out.

Bingo: your clip is selected using shortcuts. Sorry there isn’t a single key for this.

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[Rob Grauert]

not bad at all!

I almost always have my clips on V1 anyway, so all I have to do is use J or L to move the playhead over the clip. Then press X. Then Option A to select the clip (Control A was marking In and Out around my whole timeline)

Thanks! Anyone want a free mouse? hahah

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[John Dobrich]

It is more than a couple of keyboard clicks, but to me, it’s easier than reaching for the mouse to click on a clip in the time line.

For syncing dailies, I have all the clips laid out one after another in the timeline.

1. Starting on first clip click X – marks in and out, Option-A – selects that one clip, Option-X – removes in and out marks.

2. I find the slate clap and hit M – adds a marker to clip.

3. Hit down arrow – goes to next clip

Repeat and rinse 😉

Once clip is selected, you can also move it around with the arrow keys while holding down the Option key.

It works for me – once I got into a rhythm.

[Stasiu Sosinski]

Use “V” to select the edit point and then “U”to select the desired clip. There are two methods to work with the sub clip: use “F” if you want the original source clip, use “Enter” if you want a sub clip that has already been manipulated. This opens the clip in the Viewer Window.

V – Selects Nearest Edit Point
U – Toggles which side of the edit you want to select
F – References the source clip

[Guillaume Monette]

Hey, i’m like almost 4 years too late but still it’s fun to have an answer no?
I found something today. I had to manually bypass a filter in each clip of my 30min show. First thing I thought was that I need to double click a clip, then hit bypass, then double click next clip, them bypas etc….

But then I noticed that once you double click your first clip, it goes in the viewer and you have the option then to use the up and down arrows to move from clips to clips but each clip comes automatically loaded in the viewer, ready for what ever you wanna do with it.

I’m not too good in english but I hope it makes sense
G

[John Fishback]

Another thought is to change the first clip the way you want it, then Copy it, select the rest of the clips, then Paste Attributes to change all the clips at once.

John

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