Jack Swart wrote:
I always use the Smartbin for Timelines.
If you copy and paste there, it appears that nothing has happened.
The copy does indeed take place but you need to select another bin and come back again for the list to refresh and show the duplicated timeline..
Okay, although there's another way for you to consider working in the future: In the project settings, there's an option to "Use Timelines Bin" that's only available when you start a new project, before you've added any clips to the media pool or create your first timeline. Selecting that option creates one "real" bin (not a smart bin) at the top of your bin list, called "Timelines." All of your timelines get stored there automatically, and the copy-paste command works for duplicating them within that bin. If you don't do this right at the beginning, the option is replaced by one to create a smart bin for timelines.
The risk with scattering your timelines around different bins and then corralling them together using a Smart Bin is that if you ever decide to delete one of those bins (unlikely, but possible) any timelines that happen to be in that bin will be deleted with it. If you use a Timelines Bin, all your timelines will be stored there automatically; it's a little different from a Smart Bin, which points to the location of clips and timelines. If you have a timeline stored in a bin, deleting that bin will delete the timeline. That's why it's safer to check the "Use Timelines Bin" right at the beginning of setting up a new project. It's the first thing I do every time.
If we never see a welcome release note like "By popular demand, we're reinstated the function to duplicate a timeline by right-clicking on it," at least this approach works almost as easily if less intuitively.
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