Scroll the timeline and select clips as in Premiere Pro

Applies to 0.11Updated 10 Nov 20262 min read

The mouse wheel moves along the time, ⌘ + wheel or a swipe scrolls the tracks, and a scroll bar on the right takes you to any track.

Scrolling

• Wheel: along the time. One notch of a mouse moves a twentieth of what is in view.
• ⌘ + wheel or ⇧ + wheel: the tracks up and down. Over the track headers, ⇧ + wheel changes all tracks’ height.
• ⌥ + wheel: zoom. Over the track headers it changes one track’s height.
• Trackpad or Magic Mouse: swipe up or down for the tracks, sideways for the time.
• The vertical scroll bar on the right of the timeline: drag it, or click above or below its knob to jump a page.
• Preferences › Timeline › Timeline mouse scrolling: Automatic, Horizontal (the default) or Vertical.

Selecting clips

• ⇧-click a clip: adds it to the selection, or takes it out.
• ⌘-click a clip’s body: selects that clip, as a plain click. ⌘-click a clip’s end: a ripple trim.
• ⌥-click: only the video or only the audio of a linked clip. ⌘-drag inserts, ⌥-drag duplicates.

Nest after Select All

• Clip › Nest… with everything selected nests the clips, while captions and a language’s own tracks (for example “Voice — Russian”) stay in this sequence. The status line names the tracks that stayed.