How to replace clip on timeline with existing clip from project window? (alt drag in AE)

[Troy Murison]

No, there’s no function currently. I have (and you should, please!) submitted a feature
request to Adobe! This seems like a very elementary function to leave out for this
long and it’s among the highest of my personal priorities as far as feature requests
for future versions of PPro.

My workaround is to copy the clip I’m replacing, mark that clip, overwrite, then paste
attributes. But, as you know, this does nothing to help you if you have transitions
in place on either end of the targeted clip. If it’s always your default transition,
then you’re golden, but how often is that the case? For me, it’s rarely. So
I sometimes also will look at and note the lengths of transitions before I overwrite.
Or I sometimes overwrite to a layer above, then when I’m through with that
I go back and re-do the transitions in that track so I have a ‘guide’ layer below.
Then just delete the lower track or clips when done. There may be a better workarounds
I haven’t thought of yet. If I think I’m going to have a lot of this kind of thing
when I start a project then I just don’t use PPro, but that’s a choice I have that
some don’t.

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA

[Daniel83]

Damn I’m smart! 🙂

Ok, I don’t know if this will work for your projects, but it worked in my case where I needed to replace a clip, that appeared a few times in the sequence, with basically the same clip processed in AE. So my two clips, the one to be replaced, and the one to replace with were identical in length and all..

Select cliptobereplaced.avi in project window, and ‘make offline’, either by right clicking, or project menu. Then with cliptobereplaced.avi still selected, right click or project menu – > ‘link media’ and select cliptoreplacewith.avi – there you go! Fast and easy 🙂 All effects, transitions and edit points untouched!

It even works linking it to an AE project!

[Marisu Fronc]

Yup-that certainly works AS LONG AS the media TYPE is the same (that is video only or audio & video or whatever – if you change that the new clip won’t link (the moral is – know what kind of clip you’re processing and keep it the same – it certainly makes substitution easy down the road!)

slainte,
marisu

[Troy Murison]

Thanks for the tip! We also tried that here but quickly determined that
with our particular workflow(s) it didn’t work. We are usually stuck trying
to keep all everything ‘live’, old versions and all, because our clients expect
(and should expect) to be able to go back to old versions. If/when we
wanted to revert back, then we had to fool around too much for comfort.
It’s a great idea for folks who don’t need to worry about my particular
issues though!

I guess what I’m saying too is that I personally still need a replace edit
function in PPro that functions similarly to AE’s Alt+Drag! Hello, Adobe?
Are you listening? Please?! I am hoping that they are listening to
feature requests- it appears that they do. So if it’s important
to you (anyone), submit a feature request, please!

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA

[Vidoje]

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