Cut vs Remove

garyrbeach

Newbie Joined: Dec 08, 2008 11:20 Messages: 11 Offline

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Jan 03, 2009 12:20

I can't see a difference between "Cut" and "Remove" Could somebody explain to me. Also, "Copy" and "Paste" don't seem to work within the Timeline. Is there a way to drag trimmed clips from the primary video track to the PIP track. If not; it'd sure be a wonderful feature.

RobertWA

Senior Member Joined: Sep 20, 2008 00:18 Messages: 223 Offline

Jan 05, 2009 03:18

Gary

Use Cut in conjunction with Paste to MOVE a clip on your timeline. Use Remove if you just want to DELETE it.

BTW, Copy and Paste seem to work fine for me.

Robert

Cranston

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Jan 05, 2009 04:32

Hi Robert(WA),

You wrote...
"BTW, Copy and Paste works fine for me".

But you're not saying that you've found a way to "copy" one of your edited clips from the Master Track, and then "paste" that clip into a PIP Track, right?

I've tried to do that and it hasn't worked for me, so I'd really like to know if I've missed yet another feature in PD7.

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RobertWA

Senior Member Joined: Sep 20, 2008 00:18 Messages: 223 Offline

Jan 05, 2009 05:37

Cranston

No, I was just referring to Cut and Paste in general. I don't know of an easy way to copy an edited clip to the PIP track.

Robert

RobertWA

Senior Member Joined: Sep 20, 2008 00:18 Messages: 223 Offline

Jan 05, 2009 06:13

But there is a workaround (which sounds more complicated than it really is!)

Highlight the edited clip and Edit --> Copy (or Control-C)

Open a new project (make sure you save the original project first).

Edit --> Paste (or Control-V) to paste the edited clip onto the timeline of the new project. That is the only thing that will be on the timeline.

Go to Produce and create a file - avi or mpeg.

Close the second project - no need to save it as all you want is the produced file.

Go back to your original project and import the file you just created, and copy it to your PIP track.

Hope that helps.

Robert