Tuesday Tips: Select All Forward

Here’s something that’s far easier in FCP than Avid. If you need to insert a clip or a space in a complicated timeline, a quick way to select all the clips forward of your insert point is to hit ‘t’, hold shift and then click to select the first clip on the timeline you would like to move. This will highlight all the clips from this clip onwards, and you can move these either by dragging them, or by typing the number of frames you want to bump them forward.

If there are particular tracks you don’t want to include in the move, such as background music or voiceover, just lock them beforehand using the small padlocks on the far left of the timeline.