11.2.3.
Range and Rectangle Selection
The default selection tool is the Clip
selection, which allows you to click on clips and select them as
a whole so that you can move them within the workspace. The
other two modes are Range and
Rectangle.
The Range selection tool spans all tracks
in your workspace and allows you to arbitrarily select any
portion of clips regardless of where the clips begin or end. In
otherwords, you can select a range in the very middle of a clip,
and all other clips above and below it because you are selecting
a block of time, rather than basing your selection on the nature
of the clips in your workspace.
To use the Range select mode:
Click the menu >
> Range
Click within an audio clip and drag your selection.
The Rectangle selection mode is similar to
Range but is track-specific. Using the
Rectangle selection tool permits you to
draw the range of selection over one or more tracks, and
a selection will be made wherever a clip is present.
To use the Rectangle select mode:
Click the menu >
> Rectangle
Click within an audio clip and drag your selection. You may
select portions, or the whole, of clips on as many tracks as
you wish. Or you may confine your selection to one.
With both tools, your selected areas can be cut, copied, pasted,
deleted, or even lifted out from their clips and moved elsewhere
(the splits will be made automatically for you).
To lift a selection from a clip or a set of clips, click and
drag the selection.
To copy and paste, click on the menu and
select or
or the usual keyboard shortcuts
of Ctrl+C
or Ctrl+X. When you are ready to paste,
click the menu again and select
(or use
Ctrl+V)
and click in the time line where you want to paste the clips.
If you have multiple clips copied, then they will be pasted
relative to how they were copied (so if you paste a clip
originally from tracks 1 and 2 into track 3, then the pasted
clips will fall into tracks 3 and 4).
