• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Dragging clips on the timeline

  Posted by Bill Clotz on March 17, 2008 at 12:23 am

  Sometimes I have a clip in one area of my timeline, and I want to move it WAAAY over to some other area. If I drag the clip off to the left or right side of the timeline, sometimes the timeline will start scrolling in that direction, and then I just wait until it gets to where I want it, and I can drop the clip.

  Sometimes though, the timeline doesn’t scroll when I move to the sides of it. It seems to be pretty hit or miss, and works about half of the time. I figure there must be some sort of trick to it… does any one know how to make it work consistently?

  Ross Bradshaw replied 18 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Ross Bradshaw

  March 18, 2008 at 5:07 pm

  Hows it going Alan?

  I have to say I never really noticed what your talking about until I tried it myself but I see what you mean. It seems thats if you move the clip too fast off the screen the timeline doesn’t go with you but if you sort of edge the clip off the screen the timeline follows and then you can pick up speed.

  I have to say however I find Ctrl + X, Ctrl + C and Ctrl,Shift + V much better ways of moving clips around. Anotherr handy trick is if you want to put a clip in between two clips hold down Ctrl and you will see a dotted line with arrows and you can then drop your clip in between other clips. Oh and if you press the \ key your timeline automatically zooms out to show you everything on it.

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