Replace clip in sequence, keep transitions. Possible?

[Joe Bell]

couldn’t find the solution online (maybe it’s somewhere) but through reading this and then button bashing I discovered…

option + shift + drag = replace the clip WITH the in/out points

Hallelujah

[Ht Davis]

It also sounds like you’re doing multi camera from your description. Premiere has this function built in. You enable it first, then begin playing through the sequence using the multi camera monitor (just click the button to start it), and then click between your cameras to choose your view. If you wish to change it, you just go to the multi cam menu on the clip and set a different camera; if you want to split a clip you blade it and set the camera on each clip where it needs to change. If you have a default transition you want to set and use where the edits occur, you can select several clips at a time, and set the transition with the menu option. You can do this for audio as well as video.

If you are using data from completely different shoots or scenes, why attempt a work around? Set an adjustment\transition track up. Create an adjustment layer. Wherever you have a transition, mark with blade, apply the transition to that layer. When you replace a clip, the transition will remain. It doesn’t matter how you replace, the transition will hold, so you can even edit the clip in the sequence without using the in\out control. If you use that clip more than once and there are different lengths of it, the in\out won’t work so well. If you edit in the sequence, it will be tied to the sequence edit, not the clip. You could also use the in\out method to simply create a sub clip in the source monitor, and then drop the sub clip onto the spot you need it. Using the Adjustment\transition track, you can make most of your effects at clip points, and replace those underlying clips at any time by changing angles\cameras or replacing a clip completely. You can even roll an effect one way or another (if you do it at an edit or clip that gets moved), by rolling the edit point on the adjustment layer to line up where you need it to.