Shortcuts

[Jeremy Garchow]

Select the clip with c.

Command-c. (copy)

Option-v (paste connected).

If not, then you hold option, click and drag the clip up.

[Robin S. kurz]

[Jeremy Garchow] “hold option, click and drag the clip up.”

Probably the easier/better option, yes. 😉

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[James Ewart]

I find option drag a bit tedious. Thus the OP. I guess I’m hard to please.

Feature request “Duplicate as Connected clip”

[Robin S. kurz]

[James Ewart] “I find option drag a bit tedious.”

Uh-huh. Okay.

[James Ewart] “Feature request “Duplicate as Connected clip””

There’s always ⌘C and ⌥V.

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[Bret Williams]

It’s definitely still annoying that you can’t combine option drag with shift to keep the duplicate from moving horizontally. Instead you have to rely on snapping or the visual +/- cue (which gives bizarre results sometimes dragging from a secondary. In FCP legacy I always held shift and the muscle memory won’t go away. If you hold shift it cancels the duplication.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Copy paste connected is my go to move.

[Mark Morache]

Likewise, I copy, and paste with option-v to add the connected clip.

I just make sure I’m parked at the start of the clip I’m copying so the copy ends up in the same place, and not half way down.

Doing the option-drag to make a copy, I like that I get a window giving me feedback of how much the clip is displaced, making it pretty easy to slide left or right until the window displays 0:00.

I agree that adding the ability to press “shift” would make things easier.

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