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

[eugenei27144166]

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?

[Mathias Moehl]

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

[eugenei27144166]

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!

[eugenei27144166]

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.

[R Neil Haugen]

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?

[Ann Bens]

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.

[eugenei27144166]

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.

[eugenei27144166 · Accepted solution]

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!

[Piper38241668lb3q]

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.