Working with partial clips

Sonar lets you select, copy, move, and delete portions of a project even if they do not match clip boundaries. There are two ways to do this:

Directly select portions of one or more clips.

Select a range of times and one or more tracks. Sonar automatically selects the portions of clips that are in both the selected time range and the selected tracks. You can then copy, move, or delete the material the same way you do with whole clips. When you select portions of a clip, Sonar may round off the start and end times of your selection based on the snap grid. For more information, see Defining and using the Snap Grid.

To select a portion of a clip

Select the Smart tool or Select tool in the Control Bar and drag across the bottom half of a clip.

Sonar highlights the selected portion of the clip. You can edit this portion of the clip using all the normal editing commands.

To select a portion of several clips

Select the Smart tool or Select tool in the Control Bar, then click in the bottom half of a clip and drag across several clips in adjacent tracks.

Sonar highlights the selected portions of all the clips. You can edit these portions of clips using all the normal editing commands.

To select partial clips using time ranges and tracks

1.	Select a range of time in one of the following ways:

Drag the mouse in the Time Ruler.

Click between two markers to select the time between the markers.

Select a clip (Sonar selects the range of time covered by the clip).

Choose Edit > Select > By Time, enter the start and end time, and click OK.

2.	Select one or more tracks by clicking, SHIFT-clicking, or CTRL-clicking on the track numbers in the Track view.

3.	To adjust the start and end time of the selection, hold the SHIFT key while clicking on the Time Ruler.

The relevant portions of clips in the selected tracks are highlighted. You can edit these portions of clips using all the normal editing commands.

To clear the partial clip selection

You can clear the time-restricted selection in any of the following ways:

Click in an empty area of the Clips pane to completely clear the selection.

Choose Edit > Select > None or press CTRL+SHIFT+A to completely clear the selection.

Click on a single clip in the Clips pane to clear the time selection and select the clip.