Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 523)

188 Part II Rough Editing
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).
Finding and Selecting Based on Search Criteria
In a large sequence you may want to locate a clip in the Timeline with a particular
name, timecode number, or marker text, but it would take a lot of effort to find it by
visually scrolling and scanning. Final Cut Pro can search your sequence for you and
select clips that meet your criteria. You can search for individual items that meet the
criteria, or select all matching items at once.
To search for clip names, marker names, marker comments, or timecode
numbers in a sequence:
1 Open a sequence in the Timeline.
2 Do one of the following:
 To search for individual occurrences of an item starting at the beginning of a sequence,
press Home to position the playhead at the start of the sequence.
Note: On a PowerBook, hold down the Function (Fn) and Left Arrow keys to position
the playhead at the start of the sequence.
 To search for individual occurrences of an item after a certain point in the Timeline,
position the playhead where you want to start the search.
 To find an item everywhere it appears in the sequence, place the playhead anywhere in
the Timeline; in this case, you use the Find All option, so it doesn’t matter where the
playhead is positioned.
 To search a selected portion of a sequence, set sequence In and Out points (see step 6).
3 Choose Edit > Find (or press Command-F).