How to de-select multiple clips from the timeline in FCP
I often need to apply some parameter(s) to most clips within a timeline, but not to ALL clips. The way I do this is... within FCP, I...
- Press Shift + Z to make the timeline zoom to fit my screen.
- Press Command + A to highlight every clip in the timeline (approx. 50 clips)
I then need to exclude (de-select) the clips that I do not want to affect with the change(s) I am about to make. I know that... with all clips selected... I can hold down Command and click each individual clip that I want to de-select. However... with the timeline zoomed out like this... it can get very tedious because some clips are simply too small for me to click... and I end up accidentally clicking the edge of the clip which de-selects everything... and I have to start over.
With all clips selected, I thought I'd be able to hold command while I click and hold a selection around the 10 or so chunk of clips I want to de-select. But this doesn't work. It does nothing. Then I thought maybe holding Shift + Command + hold-clicking a selection around the chunk of clips might deselect them. Doesn't work.
I also thought that using the (R) tool to select a range might de-select as I need. But nope.
I know that I could start from having NO clips selected and go through and only select those clips using a combination of Shift-Clicking and Command-Clicking... but... that is... if you could see the timeline(s) I am working with you'd see that is prohibitively difficult.
