Time Selection to Selected Clip?

[Guest]

OK, so I know that, when you create a marker, you can set its duration right away by setting a time selection first...

...but how can I quickly set the time selection to the length of a selected clip?

Can't I CTRL-click on the clip or something to time-select the clip? This means I don't have to use time selection tool, or setting in and out points. (Which is slower)

I've tried multiple things and I've googled for an answer. Is this something really obvious I'm missing, or is it really not a feature? This seems useful to be able to efficiently label clips - or more importantly - creating subclips.

(Also, you can do this in Premiere Pro. It's called "Mark Selection", listed under the Markers menu.)

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Vingamer  wrote

OK, so I know that, when you create a marker, you can set its duration right away by setting a time selection first...

...but how can I quickly set the time selection to the length of a selected clip?

Can't I CTRL-click on the clip or something to time-select the clip? This means I don't have to use time selection tool, or setting in and out points. (Which is slower)

I've tried multiple things and I've googled for an answer. Is this something really obvious I'm missing, or is it really not a feature?

You turn your markers into marker ranges (if you only selected cue points), and then double-click on the relevant range indicator in the marker list, which is also where you name them:

[ryclark]

Remember that you can also drop markers on the fly whilst you are playing back the audio and listening to it using the F8 keyboard shortcut. As Steve says as long as you have a marker for the beginning and end of a clip it can easily be turned into a Range and renamed within the Markers list panel.

[Guest]

Adding to the original post, I failed to mention that I'm editing in a multitrack session.

Essentially what I'm looking for is the Mark Selection action like from Premiere Pro.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Well, you said 'label clips' and you can't do that in Multitrack view at all. You have to remember that Premiere doesn't have an equivalent of Waveform editing as such, so the facilities it offers are arranged differently, to suit an all-non-destructive environment. This means that clip handling is essentially different to what we do in Audition, where tasks are allocated based on the logic of where they actually exist in the original file. It's been like this for ever, and nobody has ever complained about the lack of a 'Mark Selection tool before that I'm aware of, and I think that I would be...

It's not all bad news for you though - there are some useful things about Audition's Multitrack environment that a lot of video editors aren't aware of - hardly their fault, as most of them aren't exactly blindingly obvious! For instance, the other thing about the Time Selection tool is that if you use it as the default tool, it automatically switches to being the 'Move' tool when you hold it over the top green bar of a clip, so you don't have to keep changing tools all the time - just hold them in the appropriate place. Also pretty much all of the common things you want to do to a clip are immediately available on a highlighted one if you use the right-click button on your mouse. This saves a lot of time. And changing tools is quick and easy anyway if you use the shortcuts.

[ryclark]

Not being a Premiere user I don't know what the option that you are requesting does or you would want it to do in Audition. Can you explain a little bit more please. Is it if for instance you double clicked on a clip in the Multitrack view it would select the clip and automatically mark the length of the clip across all tracks in the Time bar as if you had selected an In point ant Out point at the start and end of the clip?

[Guest]

Yes, exactly. Of course, as it is now double-clicking only opens the clip in the waveform editor.