Apple Final Cut Express 4 - Manual (Page 398)

398 Part VI Rough Editing
All clip items in all tracks from the point you click onward (either forward or backward)
are selected, as well as any items linked to those items. You can select entire clip items
only; you can’t select a portion of a clip item.
Once you’ve selected a large group of clip items, you can always deselect individual
clip items by Command-clicking them with the Selection tool.
Selecting or Deselecting All Clips in a Sequence
To move or delete all clip items, you can select them all at once. To make sure no clip
items are selected anywhere in the Timeline, you can deselect all of them.
To select every clip item in the Timeline:
1 Click in the Timeline to make it active (or press Command-3).
2 Choose Edit > Select All (or press Command-A).
To deselect every clip item in the Timeline:
1 Click in the Timeline to make it active (or press Command-3).
2 Choose Edit > Deselect All (or press Shift-Command-A).
If you click here, all clip
items on all tracks to the
right are selected.
If you click here, all clip
items on all tracks to the
left are selected.