• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Sliding Clips in the Timeline. Allowing Audio Tracks to “Slide Under”

  Posted by David Intrator on August 23, 2011 at 4:51 pm

  Moving from FCP to PP and have a timeline question.

  I have 2 video tracks, two stereo tracks and 4 mono tracks in my timeline.

  What I’m considering here is video track 1 with its one corresponding stereo audio track 1. The other video and audio tracks are empty for the moment.

  When I grab a clip and slide it over to the right, e.g, its corresponding stereo audio track overwrites the audio of the next clip, remaining on audio track 1, while the video track “slides” above the video track to its right, taking its place on video track 2, which is what I’d expect.

  I can’t figure out a way to ensure that the corresponding audio track “slides under” audio track 1 and takes its place on audio track 2, thereby avoiding
  the overwrite of the existing audio on audio track 1.

  This is what I’ve been used to in FCP and would appreciate your help.

  Thanks.

  david

  Jon Barrie replied 14 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Jon Barrie

  August 24, 2011 at 1:07 pm

  I think I understand your situation here.

  Once you understand the methodology of moving clips video up a level or down a level and the audio doesn’t change with it, you realize how stupid is was in FCP as you might want to designate audio tracks for Dialog 1, Dialog 2, VO, SFX, MUSIC etc. Having a clip move on the video track and the audio moving also ruins any kind of smooth workflow with dedicated track types.

  But to solve your workflow issue that you expect from FCP you can grab a clip and move it where you like, the hold the mouse down and hold the shift key down, now move the mouse to the opposing clip element (video or audio depending on which element you grabbed and moved with) and as the mouse moves over different tracks the opposing element will move to that new track.

  – JB

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  David Intrator

  August 24, 2011 at 1:11 pm

  Thanks, Jon.
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  J. c. Berger

  February 12, 2012 at 10:03 pm

  I guess my question would be, is there a tool that is best used to “insert” a clip and its audio? Basically I want to move a clip to before it quickly. I used to do that in FCP by placing the clip and audio I was going to move above and below it, respectively, so that way I knew how much to move the rest of the time line down. That way I could just drop things down and not have to play with it too much.
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  Jon Barrie

  February 13, 2012 at 5:02 am

  Glad to help.

  JB

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