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4.Drag the cursor to the opposite corner of the area you want to select. A rectangle is drawn on the workspace. All events within this rectangle are selected.
Hold the left mouse button and
Tip: You may include or exclude events from a selection area by pressing Ctrl and clicking an event. To deselect all events, click anywhere in the workspace outside of the selected events.
Selecting all events to the end of the track
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2.From the shortcut menu, choose Select Events to End. All events on the track after the selected event are selected.
Tip: To move large blocks of events, you can use Select Events to End with events selected on different tracks. Press Ctrl and click to select events on different tracks, and then
Selecting all events that refer to a specific media file
Hold Ctrl or Shift while choosing Select Timeline Events from the shortcut menu to add the events to the current selection.
Selecting a time range
Time selections are indicated by a shaded box and a bar that appears on the top of the timeline. You can use the time selection bar for playing back a smaller portion of your project or to apply
Note: Unless an event is locked, a selected time range affects all events, or portions of events, that occur within the range.
Dragging to select a time range
Time selection
Only the events within the time selection are affected by edits or played back.
1.Position the mouse pointer above the ruler (on the marker bar). The mouse pointer changes to a left/right arrow cursor (
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2.Drag to select a region. All events, or portions of events within the region are highlighted.
3.Drag the yellow handles on either end of the time selection to increase or decrease your time range selection.
Tip: You can move the entire selection range by dragging the time selection bar.
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