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  • How to copy paste from one track to another ?

    Posted by Harcharan Singh on August 30, 2008 at 6:32 pm

    Hi,
    I am Avid Composer 3 newbie.
    I am trying to copy an portion of one video track in the timeline to a different location on video track above it.
    I marked the clip In out and then by pressed CTRL+C to copy clip and them moved the timehead in timeline where I had to copy it and pressed CTRL+C but it pasted the item on the same video track I copied from.
    Can someone help?
    Thks
    Harcharan

    Douglas R bruce replied 17 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Jon Zanone

    August 31, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    Make sure you have your 2d video track enabled, and your first track disabled (the active track is usually pink, and the disabled track is usually grey).

    Jon

    “Jamming our heads full of figures and angles
    And telling us stuff that we already know”

    Willie The Wandering Gypsy & Me
    Billy Joe Shaver

  • Michael Hancock

    September 2, 2008 at 1:25 pm

    Copy/Paste always pastes on the same track you copied from.

    Instead of hitting Ctrl+C to copy, hit Alt+C to copy your selected portion of your timeline to your source monitor, move your playhead to where you want to paste it, mark your In point, repatch your tracks, and cut/splice it in.

    You can also just hit C to copy your selected region to your clipboard monitor, but then you have to go to Tools–>Clipboard monitor to have access to it. Alt+C loads it into your source monitor, which I find more convenient.

    Michael

  • Douglas R bruce

    November 2, 2008 at 5:37 am

    If you go to this url:

    https://community.avid.com/forums/t/64628.aspx

    and scroll down the posts until you come to a list of more than 40 Tutorials that I have made for Avid you can click on Link35 you can watch 2 methods of doing what you want.
    Regards,
    Douglas

    Douglas
    (Kumamoto, Japan)

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