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Is there a way to select many clips to be assigned to groups in a way that is less clunky than having to scroll through the timeline constantly?

For instance, is there some way to select all the clips from one video track to be in one group for example?

In the gallery view, there are lots of great filtering options like by group or by timeline or by video track. But when I select specific clips, the selection does not correlate to the colour timeline, and there is no dialogue for assigning to group.

This is not a multi cam shoot per se, but it has many similar clips, over 100. And I don't want to scrub through a huge timeline selecting each clip individually. The gallery view gives me the exact filtering I need, and I can even shift+select etc.

There has to be a better way than scrolling through one by one. What if you had to do a feature film!?

Do you mean gallery, or Lightbox?

Click on one thumbnail in the timeline, hit ⌘A (^A on Windows), and you can select all the clips and assign them all to the same group (if you really wanted to).

I'm so used to it, sliding the timeline over to select a larger range of shots for a Group is not a big deal. It doesn't bother me.

Hide all other tracks, only clips from the single visible track will be listed in the Clips panel in the Color tab, select all (Ctrl+A), and assign them to a group.

Hiding all other tracks is a good workaround. Thanks Mario Kalogjera!

I still like the gallery view even better than lightbox, because you can sort all your clips out of cut order. It's just too bad you can't make selections based on that. If you had an hour long concert with 10 cameras and hundreds of cuts, it would be a big pain to scroll through the timeline clicking and clicking without the ability to sort or filter based on timeline. And the workaround isn't super ideal because you have to bounce back and forth between edit and colour.

Seems like this would be a good feature to have. But for now the work around will do. Thanks!