Selecting, moving and trimming clips

Select

• Click a clip. Linked video and audio are selected together.
• Shift- or ⌘-click to add or remove clips.
• Drag on empty track space to draw a selection box.
• ⌘A selects everything; Esc deselects.

Move

Drag a clip left/right, or up/down to another track of the same kind. A tooltip shows how far it moved. Hold Alt while dragging to leave a copy behind.

Trim

Drag the left or right edge of a clip. Trimming stops at the end of the source media. Linked clips trim together; hold Alt to trim only one side.

Nudge

⌥← / ⌥→ moves the selected clips one frame (add Shift for five).

Snapping

With snapping on (S, magnet icon), edges snap to the playhead, other clip edges, markers and In/Out points.

Dropping clips from the Project panel: a clip dropped on top of, or just to the right of, the clip on its left goes straight to that clip's end, so clips line up with no gap and nothing is overwritten. Drop it further right to leave a gap. Turn snapping off (S) to drop at the exact pointer position, overwriting what is there. Hold ⌘ while dropping to insert and push later clips right.

Shortcuts show the Mac keys: on Windows and Linux use Ctrl for ⌘ and Alt for ⌥.