PhilB1234 wrote:jjsawdon wrote:I recently learned about Alt+Up/Alt+Down to move the selected clips vertically between tracks. It'd be nice to have Alt+Shift+Up/Down copy clips vertically between tracks the way Alt+Shift+Drag does.
YES!! This would be so helpful for moving clips up or down several tracks without overwriting clips in between.
I don't think that would solve the problem of overwriting clips. What jjsawdon is talking about is making a copy of the clip instead of moving it, but the copy of the clip would still overwrite other clips in between.
To address the problem of overwriting clips, BMD could add
Layered Video Editing just like they already have for Layered Audio Editing. Then stacking clips on top of each other (like when moving clips up or down several tracks with shortcuts) would not overwrite anything underneath it.
To enable this for audio:
Timeline -> Layered Audio Editing
You can also show the audio layers from the View menu:
View -> Show Audio Track Layers
I've noticed a couple problems with the Layered Editing, so some tweaks would have to be made to it first. It doesn't work with the shortcut keys (Alt+up/down arrow) at all because the audio clips are still overwritten. It also doesn't work correctly if the audio clips are linked to video clips because the audio clips can still be overwritten.
There is a very straightforward fix for this, just make sure the clip being moved always goes to the top layer over the other clip(s) instead of staying on the same layer and overwriting it. This would fix both problems. If you want the clip to go underneath, then you can manually move the clips around with the Show Layers (dragging up moves the clip up a layer and dragging down moves the clip down a layer). But by default, choosing the top layer makes the most sense.
In addition, I would also really like an Auto-crossfade mode, which would add a crossfade when clips overlap instead of overwriting. Having both Layered Editing and Auto-crossfade options would completely eliminate the problems of overwriting clips, which is one of my biggest complaints about Resolve.