This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Alt + segment copy but no snap?

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] Alt + segment copy but no snap?

Sounds like Paul is doing mouse-based timeline editing. The issue he's bringing up is that if you command-drag clips in the timeline, you can get them to snap to transitions, but if you want to use the COPY drag functionality of option/alt dragging the clip, then that kind of "breaks" the command/control functionality because if you try to command AND option drag, the copy functionality doesn't work, but if you leave off the command key, then the snapping functionality doesn't work.

As you have pointed out, the easiest way for him to pull off the same IDEA is to option/command C (Mac) to copy the clip he wants to duplicate into the source monitor and then simply recut it (using command/control to snap) to the new spot.

You can either COPY drag or SNAP drag, but you can't do both, I guess. I've never tried it. I've always used the same method you describe of selecting and copying the clip into the source then cutting it back in where you want. More keyboard-based. Less mouse-based. But different course for different horses, as the Brits like to say.

Steve

author, "Avid Uncut"

On Sep 16, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Dan McCabe danlist@bestmail.us [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Hi Paul,

Can you clarify what you mean? It may be my own ignorance and I am on a mac but the only way I know to copy a clip that is already in the timeline is to select it and copy (command c) and paste (command v) or what I do more often, mark the clips I am interested in and use Option+Command+C which loads a copy of the clips into the source monitor.

I believe in FCP there was a cool way of just duplicating by highlighting a clip in the timeline and holding down a combination of buttons but I don't think that exists in Avid. Am I wrong?

Or are you talking about dragging from a bin?

Dan

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015, at 05:51 AM, Paul Shields paulshieldsavidl@btinternet.com [Avid-L2] wrote:

So am I correct in thinking that though I can alt drag a clip in segment
mode to copy it in the timeline, I can't snap it to the playhead/in
point/clip end etc whilst doing that? If I engage ctrl (PC) whilst
copy-dragging it stops it copying.

Be a shame if so as it makes the function only useful for FCP style
"chuck clips in the general direction of the timeline" editing.