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Lifting when I should be Extracting?
I will preface my post by stating that I come from Avid land…
I have a timeline with multiple video and audio tracks. I want to extract a portion of one of the audio (or video) tracks so that the rest of the track will slide down and close the gap. I highlight the track, set my In and Out, hit extract and… it lifts instead of extracts. Oh my disappointment! My anguish!
Is this operator error or the way PPro is written?
Brian
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6 Replies
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Once you set the In and Out point in the Program window there are two buttons under the window with upward arrows: the first one on the left Lifts without closing the gap, the one on the right Extracts and closes the gap.
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Indeed and I have mapped each function to the keyboard Avid style. However when I hit EXTRACT on the keyboard or the little icon on the program monitor it LIFTS the I/O section instead of extracting it.
Any ideas?
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I have found this anomally at times as well…which must be a bug. You might try remapping the keyboard function to another key, closing it(maybe PPro as well) and then go back and remapp it again to see if it takes.
Greg
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I think I figured it out!
In an effort to maintain sync, when one EXTRACTS (from V, A or both) PPro will shift the following clips on ALL tracks (not just the selected tracks) earlier in the timeline. However, if there is an overlapping track (a piece of music for instance) where the I/O points are within it but it is not one of the selected tracks, PPro will only shift the tracks so far as to fill a gap further down the timeline and not overwrite that particular clip.
Does that make sense? Probably not. Anyway it makes EXTRACT nearly useless for me.
Thoughts?
Brian
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What happens for you if you temporarily lock all tracks except those you want to extract from, try your extract, then unlock again?
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AHA! A workaround! It would have worked with what I was doing the other day . In general however, I don’t like locking and unlocking tracks as part of my workflow, esspecially if I have to constantly change the tracks I’m working with, which is all the time.
Thanks,
Brian
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