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jameslondon74
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May 22, 2020
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Is there a 'clipboard contents' function in Premiere? (avid user here)

  • May 22, 2020
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hi all,

I'm making my start on Premiere from Avid, and would like to know if there's a 'clipboard contents' function in Premiere? This is a huge part of my workflow and saves so much time. I copy something from one timeline, and then bring up those contents in the source monitor to edit from as if it was normal source material.

I apprecaite this might be a crazy way of doing things in Premiere, so I'm open to hearing how Premiere users do such a task.

Thanks

 

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    Correct answer Fazy25

    The only way to do that in Premiere is to set Track targets in the Timeline panel. There are some keyboard shorts that can be assigned for this. and track presets ... somewhat.

     

    But it's not a 'strong' area for Premiere for sure.

     

    In PCs, you can open a text editor like Windows Notepad, make a text, and drag that from the Explorer window into a bin to get a "notepad" function sorta within Premiere. Not ... optimal ... but the best thing you can do without plugins.

     

    Check the  Knights of the Editing Table site, as a couple of their plugins offer massive help for tracking things. And of course, aescripts.com also. There's options there for some of this.


    Not sure if this was resolved but the copy to clipboard function does exist in Premiere to an extent. When you mark in and out, make sure you have no clips selected in the timeline, this will ensure what you marked will be the selection that a subsequence will be created from. Once you do this, the subseqence is then automatically loaded into the source monitor, from there you can open source in timeline. There you can insert/overwrite between your edit and source timeline.

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    MLWorrall
    MLWorrall
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    October 31, 2020

    I've just been looking to replicate the AVID clipboard function and this is what I came up with:

    1) Set the IN and OUT point.

    2) Assign a keyboard shortcut to the function "Select In to Out".

    3) Use "Select In to Out".

    4) Press Command + C or Command + X depending on whether you want to Copy or Cut the footage. Either way, this footage is now in your Clipboard.

    5) Your Playhead will serve as an IN point (ignoring any IN points you may have set), when you then Overwrite or Insert the clip using Either "Paste"/Command + V (acheives the equivalent of Overwrite) or "Insert Paste"/Shift + Command + V (acheives the equivalent of Insert).

     

    Obviously, this doesn't put it into the Source Monitor, which you might want if you wanted to be more precise, and it doesn't seem possible to paste the clip into the Source Monitor afterwards.

     

    If you did really need it in the Source monitor then I'd suggest using the "Make Subsequence" function, as that will create a sequence from the clips between an IN and OUT, AND automatically puts that into the Source Monitor, and usually make the Source Monitor the active window as well, so you can quickly start to refine. Obviously, the downside is that you now have some subsequences lying around that you'll need to go and remove once you've done with it from the Source Monitor, but this does at least give 2 options.

     

    Hope these are helpful. 

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    woytekz
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    October 31, 2020

    Execution of this simple Avid  Alt-C , which in the case of Premiere Pro is a function of "Make Subsequence", does not work so that you can mark IN and OUT only, but  a little differently! ,You need to do  Add edit  and select the entire selected fragment as a selection .
    Otherwise, only the first clip will be transferred to Source Monitor.

     

     

    Cheers 

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    woytekz
    Known Participant
    October 31, 2020

    Mistake  on my part,  sorry !
    You can do Subsequence without adding the cuts on the clips  on timeline. But you have to create a shortcut for this function. Because using context menu on timeline changes the previous selection.  You have to be careful with this functionality because you can easily change your  proper selection.  There is also the problem that Premiere Pro creates these Subsequences as sequences in the bin and this causes a mess.   I know that Pancake timeline is a solution, but if you have a multi-track sequence, it doesn't work too well.  I am curious to see how you are doing in a similar situation guys ? I previously worked for over 20 years on Avid, hence my habit of Clipboard contents functionality

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    May 22, 2020

    Select something on a timeline, then simply use the "open in source monitor" option?

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Ann BensCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 22, 2020

    Neil: Open in SM is only availble in the Project window not the timeline.

     

    James: You can select clips in the timeline, right click and Make Subsequence.

    Now go into the Project window and drag this new sub sequence into the source monitor.

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    jameslondon74Author
    Known Participant
    May 22, 2020

    Hi Ann,

    Thanks for your reply. That sounds like exactly what I'm after.

    Would it be possible to make some sort of shortcut to automatically throw this new sub-sequence into the source monitor?

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