Copy and paste onto same track

[Chris Jacek]

Has anyone found the answer to this? It is frustrating to keep activating and de-activate tracks, when all you want is the FCP 7 functionality of items pasting into the same tracks they were copied from.

Professor, Producer, Editor
and former Apple Employee

[Erin Smith]

Found a solution to this:

If there are no tracks selected, it will paste onto the track it was copied from.

Shift-click on a track to select all / deselect all tracks.

Very useful, especially when working with 10 audio tracks as I am now!

[Andy Lewis]

Yes, don’t understand this either. With FCP7 you can put interview on track 1, b-roll on track 2 and that’s it – track organisation finished for a simple edit. Why does PPro make things so difficult?

Then I discovered that if you have no track selected PPro pastes into the same track you copied from. I felt such a fool – how did it take me so long to discover this? Unfortunately it isn’t really a solution. You can’t select trim points from the keyboard with no track selected – to pick one limitation.

I think Adobe could fix this simply by changing the behaviour of the timeline when no tracks are selected.

No track selected is the same as all tracks selected EXCEPT tracks paste onto the same track you copied from.

It wouldn’t be taking functionality away from anyone as ‘no track selected’ mode currently serves no purpose as far as I can see.

[Philip Henry]

I understand the frustration here. It certainly seems like Adobe could easily make this intuitive change. One workaround I have been using is making keyboard shortcuts for selecting tracks: I use the number keys for audio track (“1” key for A1, “2” key for A2 etc.) and the function keys for video tracks (F1 for V1, F2 for V2…). I also made a shortcut for “Toggle all audio targets” and “Toggle all video targets.” This way I can quickly turn all audio of video tracks on or off without touching the mouse.

Again, not a FIX; just a workaround…

[Hasibur Rahman]

Just Un-select every track, I mean- every a1 a2 a3 v1 v2 v3. Unselect all the track.
Now try copy pasting. You will get your result.
Hope this would help.
Thanks.
Hasibur Rahman.

[Hasibur Rahman]

Just un-select every track, I mean- every a1 a2 a3 v1 v2 v3. Unselect them all.
Now try copy pasting. You will get your result.
Hope this would help.
Thanks.
Hasibur Rahman.