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Is there a shortcut to select all of the clips at the playhead (only)?

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November 30, 2023
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In this project I'm on, I'm working with 3 video angles and 3 audio tracks and some graphics layers as well. I can't find a way that lets you select the clips that are under the playhead. Not to the right or left of the playhead, just everything that's at the the playhead.

Is there a quicker and easier way rather than just dragging the mouse down across the width of the timeline?

Correct answer eugenei27144166

Huh, so with a little playing around, I found that if you turn on targeting for the the V and A layers you want selected, you can hit "D" and it selects them all! That'll do!

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Piper38241668lb3q

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If you turn on targeting for the V and A layers you want to select, then cmd + opt + K to open Keyboards shortcuts, find "Select clip at playhead" and assign a shortcut for it. Now you can choose all the targeted layers at the playhead.

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eugenei27144166AuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

Huh, so with a little playing around, I found that if you turn on targeting for the the V and A layers you want selected, you can hit "D" and it selects them all! That'll do!

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Max_Ale

Participant

But not the "C" tracks, unfortunately. And when You try to select it with mouse frame it vertical scrolls to uppest tracks immediately. Need vertical scroll lock on timeline too!

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Not that I know of, and this would be a handy thing ... definitely!

@Kevin-Monahan or @Ann Bens or someone ... maybe turn this into an Idea post?

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

Ann Bens

Community Expert

Nope: no shortcut for this.

Selection follows playhead only selects one (targeted) clip.

I like to know the reason for needing to select all clips under the playhead on a regular basis.

If It's once in a while, lassoing works just as fine.

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eugenei27144166Author

Inspiring

Multicam work. In this case, I have a video that's a conversation between two people, I have 3 cameras, 3 audio sources (2 dedicated mics, 2 backups, 1 ironically ended up being unusable). Ideally I could create a cut point using Ctrl+Shift+K and then be able to select all of the layers, and switch to the Ripple tool and fine-tune the cut. Having to select all of the layers every time is pretty cumbersome.

Mathias Moehl

Community Expert

I know it is not the same, but maybe you want to enable Sequence->Selection Follows Playhead ?

Mathias Möhl - Developer of tools like BeatEdit and Automation Blocks for Premiere Pro and After Effects

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eugenei27144166Author

Inspiring

May have a setting off somewhere, but I have that on as a default and it has just selected one layer on each side.

A solution in that same vein that seems to work is to group all of the video and audio tracks together, enable Selection Follows Playhead, and then Alt+Click when wanting to select individual tracks. I'll give that a go on this project and see if it works better.

But having an easy selection shortcut for everything at the playhead would be super helpful for anything multi-cam, Adobe!

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eugenei27144166Author

Inspiring

Nevermind, even after adding the cut to all tracks, both sides of the cut get selected, so that doesn't work either. All the more reason it'd be handy to have as a shortcut.

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