Premiere 6.5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Selecting Clips in the Timeline

Not surprisingly, whenever you want to manipulate or affect a program clip in any way, you have to select it first.

To select clips in the timeline:

• Click a clip in the timeline.

  When a clip is selected, its border has an animated highlight (sometimes described as “crawling ants”) (Figure 6.39).

  Figure 6.39. Clicking a linked clip selects both the video and audio portions of the clip.

  

  When synch mode is set to linked, clicking a linked clip selects both the video and audio tracks. See “Using Linked Clips” later in this chapter.

To select multiple clips in the timeline by clicking:

• Hold down the key as you click ...