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Targeting tracks

Targeting tracks

When we target tracks, it specifies that we want certain actions to take place on them. The way that we know that a track is targeted is by if it's little bit highlighted more than the others, so for example video track 1 and audio track 1 are targeted and now audio track 2 and 3 and video track 2 and 3 are targeted. To un-target a track, we simply click it and it becomes dark again so it's untargeted. Now I am going to go back to targeting audio track 1 and video track 1. There is a cool keyboard shortcut for navigating through clips and that is the Page Down key on your keyboard. That advances to the next edit point of the targeted track. So if I hit Page Down we go to that edit point. Page Down goes to the next edit point. This is again very handy. The Page Up key goes back to the previous edit point. But again it's only for targeted tracks. So notice that the b-roll on video track 2 was ignored. If we target video track 2 then we hit Page Up, we will go to the beginning of the…

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