Avid Media Composer — Selection Tools in the Timeline

Did you know that you can select clips in your Media Composer timeline by source clip color? Or to see if any of your clips are muted or offline? It’s all about speed and efficiency in Avid Media Composer and we are showing you several ways to quickly and easily make clip or range selections in your timeline. Check it out.

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[claytonwoodhull]

Selecting clips without selecting filler!! What a concept! A lifesaver. Thank you!

[profet]

Brilliantly useful and concise video! I've been editing for 20 years, and I learnt something new! Thanks.

[ehaselden]

25 years editing - Every day's a school day! Great tips

[rayzrsharp]

WOW!!! I've been looking for something like this I hate that Avid's timeline background is active. But this helps that annoyance big time. THANK YOU!

[renascine]

OMG I needed that so much. Makes total difference on my workflow

[TheRealBarkinMadd]

Brilliant! I knew about these but seeing them in operation really sells the value! Thanks Avid.

[Lonezewolf]

Best way to see Avid, like calculus, but with no prior math experience whatsoever.

[akporeuzoh]

Exactly what I was looking for. Excellent Video!

[koushikbhattacharya]

Thank u so much for making this tutorial...can u plz show us how to duplicate a clip?

[prasha]

@1:15 Yes I did know and I use it quit often.

[garrettlynn]

what about select clips with markers on them?

[ailtorres]

In Previous avid versions you could select all transitions in a sequence by opening the effects editor, hold down option and click and drag from bottom right to left and it would select only transitions. In v2022 that seems to be gone. Is there still a way to do it?

[jamiebibo]

Is there a way to select what's under the position bar from the keyboard?

[BarnabyBoultonFilm]

Please can you help, I am currently using avid and I am missing several of the timeline tools. Pretty much everything to the right of the first block of tools is missing. Most notably the tools I am missing are the “to the right” and “to the left” buttons. I have checked the tool palette and I cannot find these tools anywhere.

[martymclean]

Shouldn’t “reverse” be labelled “inverse”?

[ashlee_nichols]

Thank you. Why does Avid default to selecting filler… Why is this helpful?

[jamiebibo]

Are there downsides to not selecting the filler?

[paulaheredia]

does anyone know how to make a new folder in avid 2020?
Also, how to set up in my keyboard a command to switch and replace cameras in a sequence when working with a multicam clip?

[Makak]

Handy tutorial :-) But do something with your mike. I can hear clearly every mouse click but voice is muffled...