Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 517)

182 Part II Rough Editing
2 Drag a box around all of the desired clips to select them. Any clip you touch will be
included, even if you don’t drag across the entire clip.
Selecting Multiple Clips
The Shift and Command keys allow you to select multiple clip items in the Timeline,
either contiguous or noncontiguous.
To select multiple noncontiguous clip items:
m Hold down the Command key while selecting the desired clip items using either the
Selection tool or the Group Selection tool.
You can also Command-click a specific item again to deselect it.
Drag to select the
desired clips.
Noncontiguous
selection