Selecting part of a clip

So far, we’ve been working with entire clips — whatever the camera recorded — but editing is about selecting just the best parts. The Browser is a great place to do that, because your choices will be automatically recorded. First, we’ll select ranges on clips, and next, we’ll rate them.

The selection process has a few subtleties, so make sure you’re working with clips that haven’t been partly selected already, and follow these steps carefully:

1. Switch to Filmstrip view, not List view. (While these steps can mostly be performed in List view too, we’ll use Filmstrip view here.)
2. Click on one of your clips, then type ⌘A, then ⌥X.
3. This will remove any selections from your clips, which makes the next step simpler. To select part of a clip, it’s now easy to click and drag.
4. Click on a blank, unselected area inside a clip, then drag forward to another point in that same...