How to select a range of clips inside a Secondary Storyline

Hi

I would like to know how you - by only using keystrokes - can select a range of clips inside a Secondary Storyline, in order to delete them? Using the mouse is what I try to avoid as much as possible.

My main storyline is solid black. This is so that I can attach titles to it, without the titles erased every time I swap the multicam clip that I am editing. (I am making a bunch of product videos with the same intro / outro and titles).

What I would usually do, is to use the In and Out points, combined with the "next edit" command. However, if your clips are located inside a secondary storyline, I can't find a way to do this.

Any tricks out there?

How many edits/clips you talking about removing? I am working on something similar, but audio master is down in the primary storyline. I duplicate the project for the next product video. cmd click the clips inside the secondary storyline, then select the position tool and move them out above the secondary SL. This leaves black spacers in the place of the clips you just moved out - allowing you to drag new clips down and 'replace from start' leaving your timeline intact.

Doing something to that effect without the mouse - who knows? with one hand on the keyboard using the up and down arrows to jump between edits and the mouse on the other has to be pretty quick?

As we are working on similar things, looks like you might be able to help me with my next post...

There is nothing wrong with using the mouse now and then, that's why mouses exist

All jokes aside: you cannot do this on a secondary storyline yet by just using the keyboard. At this time a secondary storyline still works quite differently than the primary one. The appearance of the strange white dot in 10.1 may indicate that in the near future we will be able to navigate between storylines using the keyboard, that we will be able to perform editing tasks to secondary story lines without having to manually select them using the mouse, and that we will finally be able to set keyboard In and Out points in secondary storylines as well. Until that happens, feel free to use the feedback form as there are many of us who would like this to happen.

- Ronny

That'd be fantastic Ronny. I do find myself avoiding working secondary storylines because they're just too hard to edit on with the keyboard as the shortcuts seem to default to the primary storyline. Here's hoping for a change.

Thanks for your answers. I suppose I will have to wait for further improvements then.