• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  pasting to a video track

  Posted by Chet Wesley on November 16, 2007 at 3:14 pm

  I have been using Final Cut for years (7 years to be precise), but there is one thing that still eludes me. Excuse the very basic, stupid question.

  When you copy and paste something in the timeline, how does Final Cut decide what track it is going to put a given clip when you paste it??? It seems to be totally random where it decides any given clip will go, and it almost never is the track where I want to paste it.

  I have tried various rituals prior to pasting, but none of them seem to work reliably. I may try giving a small sacrifice to the video gods, but if that doesn’t work, does anyone else have any other suggestions?

  Chet Wesley replied 18 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Tom Wolsky

  November 16, 2007 at 4:09 pm

  First it depends on the version of the application you’re using. The current behavior is to paste back to same tracks the clips came from. That’s the default behavior if you do nothing. Otherwise the autoselect buttons control the copy and paste tracks. The lowest number autoselected tracks will have the clips pasted into them.

  All the best,

  Tom

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  Chet Wesley

  November 16, 2007 at 5:54 pm

  6.0.1

  Although I can now see how that works, it is amazingly unintuitive. If you have the auto select on for a track already, it will not paste to it unless that is the track you copied from (in which case it isn’t using the autoselect anyway). You have to turn it off and then back on.

  I like Final Cut a lot — more than any other video editing application I have used, but in some ways, I think they could take some hints from the ways that some audio multi track applications function in relation to dealing with multiple tracks… like just click on the track before you paste to it, or something like that, rather than having a toggle which doesn’t actually act like a toggle.

  I guess they wouldn’t want to freak out all the video veterans though by suddenly doing it in a way that makes sense.

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