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Gale Andrews wrote:IMO, selecting over the clips is a much easier way for user to understand the workaround for dragging all clips in a sync-locked groups...

Gale,
Could you please clarify what you mean by "selecting over the clips"? Do you mean doing a dragged selection where the drag has travelled both horizontally (across several clips) and vertically (across several tracks)?

If so, that is a workaround of limited value for me with my soundtrack assembly projects. I usually have at least two screens of tracks and often more and the tracks are always laid out in echelon formation. My two most recent projects both had 49 stereo tracks. On the first of those I arrived at a point where I needed to move all except the first three tracks 35 seconds further along the timeline (whilst preserving the already established synchronizations relative to one another). I don't know of a slick way to drag-select across a screen boundary. If there is one, please tell!

PGA wrote:

Gale Andrews wrote:IMO, selecting over the clips is a much easier way for user to understand the workaround for dragging all clips in a sync-locked groups...

Could you please clarify what you mean by "selecting over the clips"? Do you mean doing a dragged selection where the drag has travelled both horizontally (across several clips) and vertically (across several tracks)?

I mean a selection that at least part-encompasses all the overlapped clips that one wants to move simultaneously.

PGA wrote:If so, that is a workaround of limited value for me with my soundtrack assembly projects. I usually have at least two screens of tracks and often more and the tracks are always laid out in echelon formation. My two most recent projects both had 49 stereo tracks. On the first of those I arrived at a point where I needed to move all except the first three tracks 35 seconds further along the timeline (whilst preserving the already established synchronizations relative to one another). I don't know of a slick way to drag-select across a screen boundary. If there is one, please tell!

It's an open bug that dragging a selection vertically doesn't scroll the project.

If you want to all the clips to move then CTRL + A to select all seems simplest.

If you want to prevent some clips moving when others do, SHIFT-click on the Track Control Panel of those tracks to deselect them. SHIFT-click again to reinclude those tracks. To do this with the keyboard, use UP or DOWN arrow on the keyboard to move the focus border to the track you want to deselect, then press ENTER. Repeat for the other tracks you want to deselect. If a track you want to deselect is adjacent, hold down SHIFT then use the appropriate arrow key.

SHIFT + UP or SHIFT and DOWN do actually scroll the screen vertically, so are a solution until dragging scrolls vertically.



Gale