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Did you try copying it on track 2 :-? PC specs :
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BabInd

To paste, I use the keyboard (Ctrl + V) pastes at the cursor position, usually take the cursor to the right, then drag clip to the new position, track you want.
The way you do, sometimes works, sometimes does not appear copies

I think I am not clear in explaining the issue.
I am talking about the menu pop-up which says "Copy above track 1" when it is impossible to copy above track 1 PC specs :
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BenQ 22" LCD monitor 1920x1080

Quote: I think I am not clear in explaining the issue.
I am talking about the menu pop-up which says "Copy above track 1" when it is impossible to copy above track 1

BabInd,

I followed your steps and here is what I get:
1 - Place clip on track 1: OK
2 - Right click - select copy: OK
3 - Click away on the time line: OK
4 - Right click - select copy to: default selection is "Below track 2" Other options in the drop down are "Above track 1" and "Above track 2"
5 - Clip is inserted where I request. If I request "Above track 1", a new Track 1 is created and the clip inserted there.

Hal
OS - Win11 Pro, Alienware R13, CPU - Intel Core I7-12700KF 12 CPUs), 16g DDR5 4400 RAM, Video - Geeforce RTX 3080ti 12g, PD11 & PD365
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Coferi again, in my view there is nothing wrong.
Copy and paste full track to the same position, above or below the original clip, new track up strength to renumber all the tracks, down the range of effects, but can be dragged back.
In PD, the tracks below, has priority over the track above.

BabInd -

Sorry - my first post was intended to be a little bit humorous. It obviously wasn't.

I should have just said that the option of copying the clip to "Above Track 1" is perfectly reasonable. Selecting that option results in the behaviour Hal & playsound have described. Tracks are re-numbered.

In fact, without that option (if that's what was needed), there'd be a couple of extra steps for the user.

Cheers - Tony
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Quote: I think I am not clear in explaining the issue.
I am talking about the menu pop-up which says "Copy above track 1" when it is impossible to copy above track 1

You get the pop-up message you do as you did not select "Copy to" but rather a mouse slip and got "Move to". This is evident by your image in the initial post with "Move to" in the upper left of the box. If "Copy to" was selected the box would say "Copy to".

I think for what's in the timeline and what you selected, "Move to" the box is correct.

Jeff

That's JL_JL Investigations for you... attention to detail!

Jeff - apart from missing Bab's mouse slip, I might be missing something else. The only difference I see is "Copy to" creates an extra copy & "Move to" doesn't. The track options are the same.

Still - bottom line. PD is doing what it's told to do & that's a good thing!

Cheers - Tony
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