Moving and Extending Selections Between Tracks

With Commands Keyboard Focus enabled, Edit selections can be moved or extended to adjacent tracks.

To move a selection to an adjacent track:

1 Enable Commands Keyboard Focus (see Keyboard Focus).

 

Commands Keyboard Focus button enabled

2 With the Selector or Time Grabber tool, make a selection.

3 Do one of the following:

Press P on your computer keyboard to move the selection to the previous track.

– or – 

Press semicolon (;) to move the selection to the next track.

In either instance, the original Edit selection becomes deselected.

With Commands Keyboard Focus disabled, press Start+P (Windows) or Control+P (Mac) to move the selection to the previous track, or Start+Semicolon (;) (Windows) or Control+Semicolon (;) (Mac) to move the selection to the next track.

To extend a selection to an adjacent track:

1 Enable Commands Keyboard Focus (see Keyboard Focus).

2 With the Selector or Time Grabber tool, make a selection.

3 Do one of the following:

Press Shift+P to extend the selection to the previous track.

– or – 

Press Shift+Semicolon (;) to extend the selection to the next track.

In either instance, the original Edit selection remains selected.

With Commands Keyboard Focus disabled, press Start+Shift+P (Windows) or Control+Shift+P (Mac) to extend the selection to the previous track, or Start+Shift+Semicolon (;) (Windows) or Control+Shift+Semicolon (;) (Mac) to extend the selection to the next track.

To remove the bottom track from a selection:

Press Alt+Start+Semicolon (;) (Windows) or Option+Control+Semicolon (;) (Mac) to remove the bottom track.