COPY AND PASTE as an insert edit

When working in a timeline I often like to copy a section and paste that section into another position in the same timeline, but when I do this I find the paste goes in as an overwrite edit. How can I copy and paste and be able to edit the copied section into the timeline as an insert edit?

Thanks!

SHIFT-V for Paste Insert.


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I didn't know that one. Man, where are all these hidden quick keys?

Mind if I post this on www.proapptips.com? Or you can do it.


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> I didn't know that one. Man, where are all these hidden quick keys?
> Mind if I post this on www.proapptips.com? Or you can do it.

Feel free! It's not a big secret or anything -- right there under the Edit menu!


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Then I am just plain BLIND.

Still gonna post it. No one looks. I'm proof.


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give it time, from liitle acorns ...

> Still gonna post it. No one looks. I'm proof.

You're not alone:

Who knows all the options under the Mark menu?

Took me around five years of editing and Nick Meyers' tutelage to find out about Batch Export. D'oh.


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ooh.. my ears are red.
(but that batch export article needs updating)

don't forget Shift X (Ripple CUT to clipboard) goes hand-in-hand with Shift V (Ripple Paste)


nm

Thanks to all. I'm particularly grateful for the SHIFT X ripple cut quick key!

oh YEAH!!! nicks batch export hint saved my ass big-time last year!

my New Year's Resolution was to learn one new keyboard command every day I edit.

Just start with the File Menu and work your way through, one a day. When you get through everything that's already assigned, start in on the Button List.

So far, I've learned quite few things, and only requiring one a day means they stick longer!

At least for me...

deb

a great tip from Philip Hodgetts re learning those shortcuts:

if you go to a menu, and see a keyboard shortcut there,
USE IT!
see what it is,
LEAVE the menu,
and USE the shortcut.

do that 3 times, and you'll most likely learnt the shortcut.


cheers,
nick

Nick Meyers Wrote:
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> a great tip from Philip Hodgetts re learning those
> shortcuts:
>
> if you go to a menu, and see a keyboard shortcut
> there,
> USE IT!
> see what it is,
> LEAVE the menu,
> and USE the shortcut.

I do that.

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I have a "Dummy" FCP project file perpetually in my second internal hard drive, a project file with very few pieces of media. Whenever I see an operation recommended in a forum here, one I've never used, I open up the Dummy project and try it out. Works very well. And the low number of clips in the project file means it opens like lightning; I don't have to wait for a real ongoing project file to respond before I can practise. Also dandy for storing effects presets (eg. preset filters, filter packs, widescreen mattes) that I can copy and paste to every new project I start.

Using shortcuts is like playing an instrument -- we need muscle memory to build the process.


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