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Other Miscellaneous Controls

Following are other controls within the Timeline.

Linked Selection button

Snapping button

• Snapping button: Click to turn snapping on and off. This button appears in the Timeline

button bar by default. When snapping is on, the playhead “snaps to” key areas in the

Timeline, such as the boundaries of other clip items, sequence markers, and sequence

In and Out points. This can be extremely useful when you need to quickly line up two

clips without gaps in between, or to quickly move the playhead to a marker in

preparation for an edit. You can also turn snapping on and off by choosing View >

Snapping (or by pressing N).

• Linked Selection button: Click this to turn linked selection on and off. With linked selection

on, clicking a video or audio clip item selects all other items linked to that item. If linked

selection is off, only the clip item you click is selected, even if it is linked to other items.

This is useful for editing the audio In or Out point of a clip separately from the video,

such as when doing a split edit. You can also turn linked selection on and off by choosing

Edit > Linked Selection (or by pressing Shift-L). For more information, see “Linking and

Editing Video and Audio in Sync.”

• Link indicators (within clip items): The names of linked video and audio clip items are

underlined. As long as linked selection is on, when one linked item is selected, moved,

or trimmed, all other items linked to it are affected identically.

• Labels (within clip items): If any clip items in your edited sequence in the Timeline have

been labeled, their names are highlighted in the color that matches that label. You can

choose whether clip labels are displayed in the Timeline by selecting the Show Clip

Labels option in the Track Layout pop-up menu.

• Speed indicator (within clip items): If the speed of a clip has been changed, either by

using a fit to fill edit or using the Speed item in the Modify menu, its change of speed

will be shown in parentheses after the name of the clip in the Timeline. If variable speed

has been applied, the word “Variable” appears instead.

Tip: Optional speed indicators can be displayed in the keyframe graph area to show

you the speed of clips in your sequence using tick marks. For more information on clip

keyframes, see “Changing Motion Parameters.” You can also refer to “Adjusting

Parameters for Keyframed Effects.” The spacing and color of these tick marks indicate

the speed and playback direction of your clips. For more information, see “Changing

Clip Speed.”

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