Editing : Working with Selections and Regions
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Clicking in a Clip selects it (the color becomes darker and Handles appear). The whole Clip is ready for editing.
Clicking on other Clips while holding down the Shift key adds them to the selection. If the Clip is grouped with
other Clips, this will select the entire group. To select a single Clip in a group, first ungroup the Clips, then select
the desired Clip.
Region Selection
A Region Selection is a selected area of the Composition. A Region can include many Clips on many Tracks or
only a portion of a single Clip. It is indicated as a darker gray rectangular area over one or more Tracks. When
selecting a Clip within a group, the Region is automatically extended to the whole group. To avoid auto-selecting
the entire Clip Group and to select a range within the Clip Group Left-click the mouse while the cursor is over the
clip group at the start of the area to be selected, then while continuing to hold down the Left mouse button, press
and hold SHIFT, then drag across the clip group to make the selection. A Region can be made by clicking and
dragging the mouse across one or more Tracks.
Of course, keyboard shortcuts exist for making Regions, and this is one of the most useful ways to mark a Region.
The Pyramix default method of marking a Region in point is to press [ on the keyboard: this selects everything to
the right of the current Play Head Cursor location on the currently selected Track. ] marks a Region out point: this
selects everything to the left of the current Play Head Cursor location, up to a previously marked in point. Once a
Region has been defined in this manner it can be extended or ‘grown’ across more Tracks by using Ctrl +Shift
+Cursor UP or DOWN arrows. Ctrl +Alt +Shift +Cursor UP or DOWN shrinks. (Assuming the standard Pyramix
keyboard shortcut assignments are in use.)
Using the keyboard short-cuts, Regions can be easily made on-the-fly while playing or scrubbing the Timeline.
This is particularly efficient when used in conjunction with the Numeric Keypad transport control short-cuts.
Working with Selections and Regions
Any selection of Clips or selected Region can be manipulated as a single object. This object will include all Clips,
fades, envelopes and automation. It can be Copied and Pasted elsewhere in the Timeline or “Snapshot” copied to
a library for future use. The object can be given a suitable name and is treated in the same way as any other library
object for searching etc. This function can be used, for example, to keep complex composite effects for future use
in the current or future Projects.
With the ability to open the same Library from multiple Pyramix on a network, editors can share parts of composi-
tions in real-time between systems (when dropping something in a library from one system it will pop in the other
within seconds) and not only within the same Pyramix system.
Snapshot a Selection or Region
To Snaphot a Selection or Region:
• Make a Selection or select a Region
• Hold down Alt + Shift
• Cursor changes to:
• Click anywhere in the Selection or Region and drag to a library.
• The resulting object will appear in the library labelled, Region of {Project Name}.
Snapshot Timeline
To Snapshot the entire Timeline:
• Open the Overview Tab
• Hold down Alt + Shift
• Cursor changes to:
• Click anywhere in the Overview and drag to a library.
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