Quck question -- add clips from another timeline w/shift?

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Quck question -- add clips from another timeline w/shift?

PostTue Apr 29, 2025 4:25 pm

I have an "easy/quick" question that I haven't been able to figure out a method to do.

SCENARIO: I used Source Tape to go through a whole bunch of clips and add a bunch of "good ones" to a timeline. I now want to merge that timeline-set of clips carefully into another timeline that's already been edited.

ISSUE: I can't figure out an easy way to "copy" a clip from "source timeline" and paste into target-timeline in a way that doesn't OVERWRITE the clips that are already there.

The thing I want is "paste the clip on the clipboard like an INSERT-- shift everything over". is this possible?


What doesn't work:
- normal paste
- paste with modifier key (eg. shift-ctl-c, alt-ctl-c)
- change edit modes hoping that the paste will have different behavior
- using the 'insert clip' function

etc.


Anyone have a quick idea for how to do this?

thanks! :)
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Re: Quck question -- add clips from another timeline w/shift

PostTue Apr 29, 2025 4:31 pm

Ctrl-Shift-V
Keyboard Customization... > Application > Edit > Paste Insert

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Re: Quck question -- add clips from another timeline w/shift

PostWed Apr 30, 2025 1:48 am

Perfect! Thank you!

FWIW -- the workaround I used in the meantime was to put all the source-timeline clips on a Video 4 track ... way up high.. and then copy/paste from that to the destination timeline, thus not overwriting existing clips. But i still had to manually slide everything over.
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