How I can to replace a clip in the timeline?

Is there a command for to replace a clip in the timeline? In a recent project I have replaced some clips to hand, deleting the previous and draging the one new in the gap, but this method is dangerous because it is possible moving the edit also.

You could drag the new clip to a track above the one you want to replace. This gives you a bit more security before deleting the old one.

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  • How do you move a sound clip in the timeline?

    I have not had this problem before. I have put many songs into the timeline, and repositioned them. Today I pulled up a project and attempted to reposition a song to fit in better with the clip, and I'm unable to do so. I can't select the song, or anything else. Obviously I have set or locked up this track, and I can't figure out how to unlock if that is what I have done. I have 6 songs on that track, Audio track 2, and I can't reposition any of them. I can't even remove them from that track. What am I doing wrong?

    Hunt, most of my music files, over 9000 songs, are mostly mp3 files and a few are wma, and because of copyright laws I wouldn't use them in a commercial project I'm working on anyway. When I am working on a project for a client I will generally use higher quality WAV files. This project was being done just to learn some new techniques, gain some more experience with PPCS4, and expand my knowledge with the program. I have this huge number of music files and styles to work with, so I can do a great deal of experimentation to see what different songs can do to the mood of the video.
    As a test, I did put the exact same songs into the timeline on a different audio track. The problem track is audio 2, and I duplicated those songs on audio 3. I did the exact same editing. I faded them in and out the same as before. Split one song into 3 sections had parts of it come in and out over a video section of 9 minutes duration. They are working perfectly. I was just working on one section of that project a half hour ago, and I was still able to select and move each of the four songs on that track any way that I wanted to. However, the track just above it in that same timeline, Track 2, is still frozen.
    Hunt, just a moment ago I solved my problem. Still not being that familiar with the program, two days ago I know that I was playing with all of the controls, and I obviously hit one of them without knowing one of its side effects. I hit the show "show track keyframes". I'm sure that you know it, but I didn't realize that when that function is selected, you can't do much else with the track but play with those keyframe. Even though I didn't have the track locked, in the traditional way, it was still, for all practicall reasons, locked. I unchecked that function and now everything is back to normal again on that track.
    Something very simple, as many things turn out to be when you understand it. However, maybe someone else will make the same mistake, and my posting here will help them.
    I will use your suggestions for using .WAV files. Thank you again. 
    Terry Lee Martin
    Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 14:29:37 -0600
    From: [email protected]
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: How do you move a sound clip in the timeline?
    Terry,
    What is the purpose of using the .WMA files? I'm sure that you have a good reason, but they can be problematic, at best. I only use them as a trasfer medium, when I need to get a DD 5.1 SS soundtrack into Audition for editing. There, I break them out into 6 discrete .WAV files, edit in Multi-track Mode and then usually Export as the 6 discrete WAV's to be encoded to DTS, or similar.
    If you do not have a compelling reason for using the .WMA, try PCM/WAV @ 48KHz 16-bit and see if the issues go away.
    Good luck, and let us know how it goes please,
    Hunt
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  • How can I move a clip on the timeline less than one frame?

    I need to move an audio clip on the timeline to match the video but it snaps one frame at a time and I need to move it less than that.?

    I've just had a look.
    Try
    Edit
    Keyboard Shortcuts
    Panels
    Program Monitor Panel
    Program Monitor Panel Menu
    You should then find this:
    You can then set up your preferred shortcut key.

  • How can I lock video clips to the timeline?

    Hello Apple discussion.
    I know that holding down the command key disable ripping when triming.
    But that doesn't work when deleting clips. It would be useful to lock videoclips to the timeline, so they keep their position.
    Lock audio to playhead doesn't help the situation.
    Thank you for your time
    Attila

    You cannot lock a video clip to the timeline. The program is designed so that when you delete a video clip, the other clips slide over to fill the gap. Otherwise you would have holes all over your project, or have to manually move them over. You would want to lock the audio clips to the non-deleted video clips, so that the audio slides over with them.
    If you want to preserve the gap left by a deleted video clip, first insert in front of it a black clip of the same exact duration, and then delete the video clip. The black clip would hold all of the other clips in position, but leave you with a black hole to fill or delete. To make a black clip, separate two video clips on the timeline, and control-click on the empty space. In the resulting drop down menu, select Convert Empty Space to Clip. Then control-click on the black clip and in the resulting window adjust the time duration by overwriting the values in the time box and then clicking the Set button.

  • How do I completely remove a clip from the timeline?

    I just bought a mac pro and final cut pro x to go with it (after a couple of years of being used to using adobe on a pc) so apologies if this sounds like a stupid question, but how do I completely delete/remove a clip from the timeline instead of merely 'disabling' it?

    If you have a keyboard without the numerical keypad, then FN delete will delete the clip and replace it with a gap if it's on the primary storyline. If it's a normal Mac keyboard, then the back delete will do the trick.
    You can also lift a clip from the primary storyline by right-clicking and choosing lift from primary storyline, then just delete.

  • How do I insert a video clip into the timeline?

    Do you happen to know how I could insert a video clip into the middle of a movie like you do in FCP? Can you add tracks and insert the clip above the spot i need to change for each movie.
    I don't want to render the whole movie (convert it into a MPeg2) each time.

    No - DVD timelines are a little different to FCP. If you need to add a clip to the stream, you need to split the exisitng clip (you could trim it back to where you want to insert the new piece) and drag the new piece onto the same timeline. If you trimmed the existing piece then add another instance of it to the timeline and trim the new part from the left until you get to what you want as the out point.
    If you have a collection of video clips on your DVDSP timeline, simply dragging a new one on will shuffle the others along appropriately. However, the audio will not shuffle with them, and you'll end up moving it all manually.
    The very best thing is to create the timeline precisely as you want it in FCP and encode it to MPEG2 before bringing it in to DVDSP. Remember that DVDSP is not an editor, it is a place to assemble your work - it won't do anything remotely like FCP in that respect.

  • How do I delete space between clips in the timeline.

    I am adding several hundred photo's to the timeline. When I add them as a group, the the duration of each photo differs. I select a group of photo's, change the duration to 4.00 seconds and the clips change to 4 seconds but then there is a large space between each clip. Is there a way to select a group of clips in the timeline and have them connect to each other? How can I remove the space between clips?
    Thanks for your help.

    What you are describing happens when you have the position tool selected.
    Hit 'A' to make sure you are using the select tool (also known as the 'Arrow' tool, hence the 'A' shortcut).
    Unfortunately, your screenshots do not show which tool is active, but I am pretty convinced that that is your problem. Like Russ said, their look pretty similar to each other. But they work very differently.
    Here is a picture showing the arrow tool (in blue):
    And here is one with the Position tool (again, in blue):

  • How can I replace multiple clips in my timeline w/ an edited version of their original source file

    I have a single audio .wav file that I've already cut up and assembled in in my timeline. If I want to do a noise reduction for the full .wav file in Adobe Audition, is there a way to perform the noise reduction only once, on the original .wav file, and then ensure that the new "audio extracted" file replaces all of the related subclips in clips in my timeline? I'm trying to avoid performing the same noise reduction on multiple subclips, when they originally all came from the same file anyway. I also want to avoid the clutter of adding a bunch more "audio extracted" files to my media.
    In the future, I'll probably need to change my workflow so that I perform the noise reduction first! But in the meantime, is there a clean/ simple way to retroactively do the edit, and replace the edited .wav file with it's respective subclips?
    Thanks!
    Alex

    SAFEHARBOR11 wrote:
    ...turn off other audio tracks, export a .wav (takes seconds)
    and do the Audition work on that and drop into timeline,
    simple and clean.
    This assumes that the .wav file in question
    is only used by itself on its own audio track.
    If there are other audio elements mixed on the track(s) along with
    the .wav file the OP wants to treat with noise reduction, this method
    will require "un-editing" the track(s) before you isolate for export.

  • How Do you Replace Still Clips in the Timeline?

    I have a slide show set up with KB on and fades in and out and I need to replace some of the images. I can't seem to replace any of my images in the timeline, now. I tried the Paste Over at Playhead, but that doesn't seem to work. Nothing happens.
    Can this be done? Am I missing something?
    Thanks.
    Robert

    It shouldn't be doing that. Sometimes permissions and preferences get corrupted and need to be repaired or deleted.
    Do this common maintenance: To delete preferences, close iMovie and trash the file named com.apple.iMovie.plist found in User (the house icon)/Library/Preferences. Then repair permissions by using the Utilities/Disk Utility app on your Mac. Open Disk Utility and select your hard drive icon at the top of the left side bar of the Disk Utility window. Then click on the repair permissions button and wait a few minutes while permissions are repaired. When it is finished, restart your computer and relaunch iMovie and see if you still have the editing problem. iMovie will recreate the plist file that you deleted.
    One caution: Do not empty the project trash until your project is completely finished, or you will be unable to edit a photo that has had the KB effect applied to it. You would have to reimport the photo to work on it again. This is due to a bug in iM6.

  • How do I automatically centre all clips in the timeline?

    Hi,
    I imported a clip, spliced it up into several clips, added a bunch of effects... and then realized it wasn't centered to begin with. As a result all my clips are positioned off-screen in the exact same manner. Is there a way to automatically centre them? CS5.5
    Thanks.

    Hm. Are you sure about that?
    I just tested this: I imported a clip. I moved it into the timeline and it was aligned properly. I clicked the preview window which allowed me to reposition the clip; which I did towards the right. Then I spliced the clip up into multiple clips and also copied a few splices.
    Result: All the clips were mis-aligned to the right. I believe this is what happened initially too.
    I highly doubt it's project settings or something of that sort. I have all of those settings saved as custom settings and my source files are recorded identically to files in the past where I used this custom setting with no such problem.

  • Why can't I drag clips into the timeline in Premiere Pro CS6?

    hi,
    I have clips in my bin and trying to drag them into the timeline since the newest update and I cannot. Anyone having this issue?
    Thanks,
    Renee

    Sorry if I am saying something obvious, but do you have a project timeline open?
    I suggest you look at a good video tutorial to help you get started with FCP X.
    One of the good ones (and free, too) is at Izzy Video: http://www.izzyvideo.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial/

  • How do I correctly insert a clip into the Timeline?

    I have edited a clip in Sequence 2 and now wish to insert it into the Timeline and  the middle of my main movie in Sequence 1.
    I copied the one in Sequence 2, opened Sequence 1,  and pasted.
    The original movie on Track V1 moved to accommodate the new material, but none of the clips on v2 and v3 budged, throwing everything out of sync.
    I could select all the tracks and slide them to the right before pasting, but that seems laborious and inexact.
    I could find no previous post with precisely this question, nor could I locate an answer in Apple Help. Admittedly. my research, or my understanding of it, may be at fault.
    As always, I would appreciate some help. Thank you.

    My error.
    Tom had answered this in a previous post and I had inadvertantly been using the wrong keys. Should of course, be Shift - V
    Problem solved!

  • How can i fix a clip when the video and audio are not matching up?

    How can i fix a clip when the video and audio are not matching up? I imported the video from a junkdrive in a .VOB format and concerted to a .mov the videos were filmed on a miniDVD recorder.

    I would try detaching the audio and the dragging the audio to the left or right until it lines up.

  • I am moving clips to the timeline and they arrive zoomed in.  how can I stop this?

    need some help.  I'm moving clips to the timeline and they arrive zoomed in.  I don't want this effect.  How can I stop it?

    To expand a little on John's questions and link, every clip and every sequence has its own frame dimensions (and pixel aspect ratio & frame rate). By default, Premiere preserves the dimensions (or "resolution") of a clip when you add it to a sequence. That means that if a clip's resolution is greater than that of the sequence, it will appear to be zoomed in on the frame. Conversely, if the clip is lower res than the sequence, it will appear shrunk, with black borders.
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  • How do I select all instances of a clip in the timeline at once without manually shift clicking each instance?

    Title says it all!
    How do I select all instances of a clip in the timeline at once without manually shift+clicking each instance?
    The reason I want to do this is because I have a music video with MANY quick cuts. So clips are cut up and splattered all over the place. I am colour-correcting now and so I want to be able to select one clip everywhere it exists in the timeline so I can drag the effect onto all them at once, without having to find each instance of the clip in the timeline. This "batch select" would make it so I don't miss any instances of the clip and also saves a ton of time going through the timeline and shift clicking each time the clip turns up.
    I hope PP is smart enough to do this
    Thanks in advance!
    -- Tim

    Pick one instance of the clip, maybe even the first bit ... and use the new Master Clip feature ... here's first a written explanation and then a video tutorial on doing this ... it's a great feature.
    Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Master Clip Effects
    How to apply effects to all instances of a clip | Adobe Premiere Pro CC tutorials
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