Other miscellaneous controls – Apple Final Cut Pro 7 User Manual
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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
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
You can also refer to
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
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Chapter 9
Timeline Basics