• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Swapping clips on the timeline shortcut?

  Posted by Keith Moreau on February 2, 2011 at 6:44 pm

  I can do this in FCP, I can’t seem to figure out how to do this in PPro or if it’s possible, even after reading the docs and researching it a bit. wondering if it’s possible in Premiere Pro:

  I have 2 clips, clip A and B, one after the other in the timeline. I want to drag A to the end of B, and have B move before A, I want to ‘swap’ them. With a simple keystroke in FCP I can do that.

  As it is now I have need to drag the clips to another track to move them out of the way and then back down to the original track which is a lot of steps.

  Thanks much for any advice.

  Keith Moreau replied 13 years, 11 months ago 8 Members · 13 Replies
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  Alex Udell

  February 2, 2011 at 7:59 pm

  rearrange edit

  here:

  https://tinyurl(dot)com/4vpnc54
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  Ann Bens

  February 2, 2011 at 8:53 pm

  Select clip B and drag it to the beginning of clip A while holding shift+Alt.

  Alex: please do not use short urls. One has no idea where one is directed to. I certainly will not use/click on them.
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  Alex Udell

  February 2, 2011 at 9:39 pm

  Ann…

  the full url to the online help ket getting truncated because it was multiple lines long.

  Alex
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  Ann Bens

  February 2, 2011 at 11:10 pm

  Well, these short url’s can be very dangerous.
  Could you give me the title of the page, maybe i can get it to work.
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  Alex Udell

  February 3, 2011 at 2:37 am

  Home / Using Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 / Editing sequences and clips / Rearranging clips in a sequence
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  Ann Bens

  February 3, 2011 at 3:39 pm

  https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS8C67B075-9364-4c32-8E47-07F136D1F2BEa.html
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  Noam Osband

  October 4, 2011 at 6:17 am

  Keith, how do you do this move in FCP? I’m trying to do that now but cant figure it out.
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  Keith Moreau

  October 4, 2011 at 6:36 am

  I believe you start to drag the clip, then hold down the option key and the cursor turns into a curved arrow then place it before the clip you want to swap. I don’t use FCP that much so it might be control rather than option, give it a try.
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  Tom Simone

  November 25, 2011 at 4:43 pm

  I tried using shift-alt and drag, but this didn’t work for me. Instead, I found I can interchange two clips’ positions by holding cmd and dragging.

  I’m using a mac and the keyboard shortcuts are set to default.

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  Jon Barrie

  November 28, 2011 at 9:28 am

  swapping clips for PPro, Mac: hold cmd + alt, PC: hold ctrl + alt after dragging the clip and it will swap with the edit arrangement you drag it to.

  – JB

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