Dragging Groups

Dragging while in Drop and Drag editing mode (arrow mode) is really easy. Just select the clip or clips you want to drag using the left mouse button, then put your cursor over one of them and drag while holding down the left mouse button. Keyframes, autos, labels, and plugins will also be dragged. Dragging honors armed/disarmed tracks. When you drag there will be some possible colors as defined; depends on how the edges of edits and groups interact:

• Green color means OK to drop in that position as it will fit.
• Yellow color means you can drop here and when you do it will be exactly next to that existing edit.
• Blue color means it overlaps something and this includes overlapping itself.
• Red color means can not drop here because it will not fit in the space.
• Orange color means the track types do not match so it can not be dropped here.

Remember: With the Shift key on, it will always overwrite. Without the Shift key enabled, it always inserts only.

The original (older) method of dragging while in Arrow mode, lets you just left mouse click on a single clip or aligned clips and just drag. This older method of dragging does not move any of its effects with it at this time. There will only be a white outline while dragging and it will let you drop only if it fits. You can also perform some dragging and grouping while in the Cut and Paste editing mode (ibeam mode ) by taking advantage of the Ctrl button in conjunction with the left mouse button.

• Double click selects a column so you can move, for example, the audio and video together by holding down the Ctrl key and dragging.
• A single clip can be dragged without any of its aligned clips, by holding down and Ctrl key and drag.

This last section on Dragging, outlines the difference between column selection and marking selection . Column selection is available to make it easy to still be able to do some dragging in I-beam mode whereas Marking selection makes it easy to drag clips together that are not columnated.