copy and paste – am I thick or what?!

[Tim Kolb]

You sound like a former *Edit user…

Unfortunately, the best method would be to click, then shift-click on a group of clips and copy/paste, or simply drag a “marqueeish” box around the clips you need an copy/paste.

The defining a range with in and out thing isn’t in PPro I’m afraid.

Sorry.

TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
Creative Cow Host
2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
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[Mark Palmos]

yep, former/current discreet edit user indeed!

Tim, it is astonishing that pp cannot do that.

what if I do not want to move all of one clip, but part of one, and a few others and part of the clip at the out point, ie to paste whatever I lifted? I suppose I would then have to split each track and move “clips”. Very strange omission.

The other thing I was fiddling with and couldnt accomplish was to trim an L cut completely. I could trim it up to the last frame but could not replace the clip completely… there would always be one frame left. So what if I want to trim the audio of one clip right over the audio of the following clip? It seems I cannot do that and have to have one frame of the following clip. Is that true or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,
Mark.

[Craig Howard]

Maybe a solution for you..

Select clip in timeline – Short cut ‘T'(Match Frame) – set new in and out point in Source Window and insert / overlay drag to new position.

Craig
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)

[Labrisher]

>I could trim it up to the last frame but could not replace the clip completely… there would always be one frame left.

Remember the Program window always shows the frame ahead of the CTI. Thus when you razor at the CTI with the last frame showing in the Program window, you’re razoring the start of the last frame – hence the last frame remains. Move one frame farther (first frame of the following clip shows in Program window) then razor.

A consequence of this trimming mishap often shows up in a transition when the wayward frame unexpecting appears in the transition. It’s more obvious in some transitions than in others.

[Mark Palmos]

Hi Craig and Labrisher

The thing is say i want

XXX|YYY|ZZZ
xxx yyy zzz

to become

XXX|YYY|ZZZ
xxx xxx xxx

ie to simply drag the tail of the X clip’s audio over the Y clips audio and then immediately over the z clip’s audio. This would take about a second or less. No matter where or how I split the track (I wouldnt want to split any tracks in this case) there seems to be no way to simply extend X’s audio up till the end of the Z clip WITHOUT having to re-record the clip to the timeline by setting source in and out again, etc… much too tedious a process for a simple and pretty common trimming operation.

Till later
Mark.

[Craig Howard]

That would be an “L” edit on x (the audio) track – correct ?

[Steve Bradbury]

If my memory worked better on a Monday morning, or I was sitting in front of a machine that had Premiere on I would be able to confirm whether it is the Ctrl or Alt key that you need to press before adjusting the end of the clip.

[Mark Palmos]

Hello Craig and Steve,

yes, in my example, the split edit would be on X, and extending the X audio track over both Y and Z. I would expect to do this in two short mouse click-drags since the drag would typically stop at the end of the Y clip and I would have to click and drag it again to trim over the Z audio clip too.

Now I am not at home, so cannot check it, but from what I remember, Pressing Alt or CTRL you can trim up till but not including the last frame of the Y and Z clips… very very strange anomaly.

Mark.

[Labrisher]

Try this:

1. unlink the video/audio for the three clips
2. lock the video track
3. delete audio for yyy and zzz
4. use Selection tool and drag xxx audio to end of zzz
5. unlock video track
6. link video (perhaps first clip) to the extended audio

Let us know if it works.

[Tom Scoville]

Steve is correct! Just hold down the ALT key before you grab the tail end of XXX audio to pull it over the other clips. Easy as pie! Now I’m hungry again!

Tom S