Marking and selecting clips

You can select clips in a catalog by clicking on them in the main window, holding down the shift or command/control keys to extend the selection, then copy and paste them as required.

If you want to copy or paste text within a text field you need to click and select within the text field then use Control-C/X/V (or Command-C/X/V on the Mac) from the keyboard.

Marking clips

Use the Mark check box to mark clips of interest or to save the state of a selection:

You can also mark clips as "good" or not ("no good", or as "maybe" if you are undecided) using the Good field:

Hiding clips

Clips may be flagged as being hidden so they don't normally appear in a catalog window. These clips are still part of the catalog, however, and are saved and loaded normally.

Hidden clips can be made visible temporarily by using the Show Hidden menu command (under the View menu).

You can change whether selected clips are hidden or not by using the Hide Selected or Unhide Selected menu commands, or by checking or unchecking the "Hidden" checkbox in the clip details.

When you import a DV movie with automatic scene detection selected, a master clip representing the movie file as a whole is created, as well as separate clips for each scene detected within that movie. In most cases you are likely to be interested in the scenes on a tape, rather than the capture files, so the clips representing the movie file are initially marked as hidden. You can also manually hide master clips after creating subclips from them.


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