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Chapter 2: Sonoma Editor
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Many commands operate on one or more selected ingredients in the active EDL. Ingredients can be
selected using the mouse or with menu commands found in the selection menu. The selection toolbar
contains buttons for these commands.
Unselected ingredients appear blue-grey in color. When an ingredient is selected, its color changes to
bright green with a yellow outline.
Just to the left of the EDL’s channel rows, there is a column labeled
C
containing small rectangles.
The coloring of the rectangle indicates whether none (white), all (bright green), or some (blue-grey)
of the ingredients on that channel are selected. Clicking on any rectangle will alternately select or
deselect all ingredients on that channel. Clicking on the
C
column heading will alternately select or
deselect all ingredients in the EDL.
The channel-based selection controls are not visible all the time. When the splice editor panel is
selected, these controls are replaced with special controls for controlling the splice editor.
A single ingredient can be selected by clicking on it. Clicking on an ingredient that is already selected
has no effect. To extend the selection an ingredient at a time, or toggle the selection state of an
ingredient,
Ctrl-click
on it. To clear the selection, click in a portion of a channel row where there is
no ingredient.
You can clear the selection, so that no ingredients are selected, or select all the ingredients in the
EDL with the corresponding commands and their toolbar buttons.
2.5
Selecting Ingredients
2.5.1
Channel-based Selection
2.5.2
Selecting Ingredients with the Mouse
2.5.3
Deselect/Select All Ingredients
