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Copy and paste onto same track
Hi guys.
Former Premiere Pro user (CS3) turned FCP 7 user turned Avid user turning back to Premiere Pro (CC) here. I have some basic questions that mostly concern speeding up my workflow. Appreciate the responses to simple questions!
I am trying to copy a clip and then paste it onto the same layer, just at a different point. The clip is on video track 2. However, when I move the playhead and paste into position, it pastes the clip onto track 1! (Yes, track 2 is selected with “V1” in the far left).
The only way around this I’ve found so far is locking track 1, in which case the paste defaults to the next available track (in this case track 2).
So…any way to paste onto the same track you have copied from?
Naveen
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Quick copy/paste: select clip, hold alt and drag to new position.
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Ann,
Thanks much, handy shortcut!
It seems to me the downside to that though is if you’re trying to paste much farther away in the timeline, it would become difficult to have to drag so far and get the positioning exactly right. Seems like a simple paste command would be the most accurate and efficient. I wonder why Adobe would not include that?
Naveen
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If you want to paste on the same track you will have to select V2 and deselect V1.
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That’s the thing. V2 is selected, with the source patching set to V2. See here:
Or is this incorrect?
Naveen
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I’m CS5.5 but AFAIK patching doesn’t count if you’re cutting and pasting, the selected track does.
In your pic V1 is “greyer” therefore it is selected.
Are you sure you clicked V2 to select?MacBookPro 2.2 GHz intel core duo/ 6 GB RAM / GeForce 8600M GT
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You need to select V2 in the track selection.
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Excellent. I got the result I was looking for. Thanks much, Ann and Lucy!
Naveen
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Thanks for the this thread. I’m a newbie from FCP.
(Ha! “Grayer”…does that mean it’s the lighter gray or the darker gray? Which is “more gray?”)
thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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I’m puzzled by this function of PP, and I’m equally puzzled why no one in this thread has not pointed out the obvious: It’s dumb.
So, even though I might think it makes perfect intuitive sense that a clip will paste onto the same track from where it was copied, that doesn’t happen in PP like it does in other NLEs.
In PP, when you copy a clip from (for example) V5, it will paste onto V1, even if it overlaps existing media…? Why would that even be the DEFAULT?
Imagine if you were to copy a sentence inside a Word doc, then you position the cursor at the bottom of the page and hit Command V. Would you find it acceptable if the sentence got pasted at the TOP of the page? No. It would be an outrage.
Sorry for the all-cap theatrics, but WHAT AM I MISSING HERE?
There MUST be a way to override this non-intuitive mystery function in Preferences, yes?
All that aside, the Alt-drop function does work nicely.
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I agee with you, i am now searching the internet if I can shut this of.
It only pastes on the ‘right’ tracks if every track is turned off. (don’t know if you knew) 🙂
Jw.
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