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Known Participant
May 19, 2025
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Keyboard shortcut for Shift+alt dragging 'replace clips' in timeline

  • May 19, 2025
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There's a very useful 'replace clip' function that does not have a keyboard shortcut, be very useful if it did, e.g.  'Replace with Clip > From Bin, Match Timing'. 

As an additional - 'Replace with Clip > From Bin, Match TimeCode' and 'Replace with Clip > From Source Monitor, Match TimeCode' would also be useful

Brief overview of drag behaviour:

Shift + Alt + Drag from Bin

  • Matches playhead-relative position between selected timeline clip and dragged bin item

    Example:
    If the timeline playhead is 5 seconds into source clip 1, the replacement will begin 5 seconds into source clip 2. If the 2 items start with the same timecode then it is the equivalent of 'Replace with Clip > From Bin, Match TimeCode'

  • 2nd+ selected clips → remain in temporal sync with the first (no shot repetition)

3 replies

Inspiring
June 4, 2025

Yes! I would love to have this.  The few times when I've had to go through and replace clips on a timeline, having to do it with a mouse is very tedious.  Having a shortcut would speed things up significantly + open up the option of being able to create a macro to semi-automate the process.

Known Participant
May 19, 2025

Yes, absolutely, when the shortcut exists. Unfortunately this one doesn't.

R Neil Haugen
Legend
May 19, 2025

It's easy to assign a keyboard shortcut to any keyboard shortcut in Premiere that doesn't have an already assigned one.

 

Just go to the Keyboard Shorts panel, and add it. The dialog is pretty easy to use.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...