Copying and Pasting Clips

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Clips or portions of clips can be copied and pasted inside the Timeline. To copy a clip or segment of the Timeline, mark an IN and OUT point. Select which tracks you'd like to copy. Press Command+C (Macintosh) or Ctrl+C (Windows) to copy the clip. Remove your IN point and place your Position Indicator where you want to paste the clip. Press Command+V (Macintosh OS) or Ctrl+V (Windows) to paste the clip into its new position. Be awarethe clip will be pasted in as a splice-in edit, not as an overwrite.

Using the Clipboard

At anytime , you can store footage into the clipboard to use. This is a great way to loop a music track, or use a section of the Timeline over and over again. To copy material to the clipboard, mark an IN and OUT around the material you want to move to the clipboard. Then select the Copy to Clipboard button (see Figure 6.24). This button will need to be mapped.

Figure 6.24. The Copy to Clipboard button.

This will load your clip into the clipboard. Anytime you need the clip, click on the load Clipboard Contents from the Tool's Fast Menu or choose Clipboard Monitor from the Tools menu. A pop-up monitor will open with the material ready to be used.

Sub-Sequencing

You can edit a finished sequence onto another sequence. This is called sub-sequencing. To perform a sub-sequence:

Mark an IN and OUT inside your sequence.
Move your cursor over the record monitor.
Press the Option key (Macintosh) or the Alt key (Windows) your cursor will change to a hand icon.
Click and drag the sequence into a bin.

To load a sequence as a source clip, make sure to drag and drop the sequence into the source monitor. If you double-click the sequence, it will open in the record monitor.

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