Click to select a single clip. The Clips view displays the selected clip with a white border, including its blends. Selecting a clip deselects all other tracks or clips.
Selecting a clip also shows its properties in the Inspector window. The clip properties change depending on the type of clip and whether multiple clips are selected. See Setting Clip properties for details.
Hold Shift and click to select contiguous clips vertically on different tracks or horizontally on the same track. For example, to select three contiguous clips on the same track, select the first clip, then hold Shift and click the third clip. All three clips are selected.
Click to select the first clip
Shift-click the third clip to select contiguous clips on the same track
Hold Command/Control and click to select discontiguous clips. Hold Command/Control and click a selected clip to deselect it.
Click and drag on an empty area in the Clips view to draw a selection rectangle. This selects all clips inside the rectangle, including the clips that intersect the rectangle. Hold down Shift and draw a selection rectangle to add clips to the current selection.
You can also press the Tab key to select clips. The behaviour of the Tab key changes depending on the current selection:
Use the arrow keys to change the selected clips. The behaviour and results depend on the current selection and which modifier keys you press:
If you zoom into the Clips view, it pans to show either the start or end of the most recently selected clip. For example, if a selected clip is framed in the Clips view and you press the Right arrow key to select the next clip which is outside the Clips view, the Clips view pans to show the start of the selected clip.
You can also select clips with the Timeline Playhead. Right-click the Timeline Playhead and choose a selection option. This selects clips that either start after, start before, end after, end before, or intersect the Timeline Playhead. Clips are selected on all tracks.
Right-click the Timeline Playhead and choose Select for more clip selection options