Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 555)

You can also Command-click a specific item again to deselect it.
Noncontiguous selection
To select multiple contiguous clip items with the Selection tool
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Select a clip item, then hold down the Shift key and select another clip item farther down
on the Timeline. All of the clip items between the two are selected.
• If you select two clip items on the same track: Only the items on that track (and items
linked to items on that track) are selected.
• If you select a clip item on one track and another clip item on a different track: All clip items
between those two tracks are selected as well.
You can also select a range of contiguous clip items, and then select additional
noncontiguous clip items using a combination of the instructions above.
Deselecting an Item in a Multiple Selection
Sometimes after selecting a number of clips, you want to deselect one or two of them.
For example, if you want to select all clip items on track V1 except one in the middle, it
is often easier to select all the clip items and then deselect the clip item in the middle.
To deselect an individual clip item within a selection
1 Select the Selection tool in the Tool palette (or press A).
2 Command-click the item you want to deselect.
Selecting a Range of Timeline Content
When you want to copy, cut, or move an area of content that is not specified by clip
boundaries, you can either select the area with the Range Selection tool, or use In and
Out points to make a vertical selection across tracks. For more information about using
In and Out points to select a range of content, see
“Using Auto Select to Specify Tracks
for Selections.”
555 Chapter 37 Finding and Selecting Content in the Timeline