Overlay Edit works only once?

[davef52394606]

I set in in and out on a piece of footage and used the overlay edit feature to get in on the timeline.  Deleted the footage by accident and tried to drop it back in again using overlay edit and now nothing happens.  Please tell me I do not need to open the footage again and reset in and out points every time I might need to put the same footage in a timeline.  Am I doing anything wrong here?

[Roei Tzoref]

this should work fine. if you click twice on the footage in the timeline window, it shows the recent in-out points and you can use overlay edit again if you want. if this does not work that way maybe reset the software to make sure it's not something that is fixed by restarting. maybe show us in a screen recording what exactly you are doing.

[Roland Kahlenberg]

Use Premiere Pro for such edits. Once you're done, simply select your clips in the PPro sequence and paste them onto an AE Timeline. What you're doing is akin to running a 100M dash with flippers on your soles. 😉

[Roei Tzoref]

Roland I agree that Ae has limited editing tools, but they are available and are  supposed to work fine. if all you need is to set in/out point of a few footage items and drag to the timeline, going into a different app to do that will actually take longer and is more error prone (too many steps, something could go wrong). I feel much more comfortable opening footage straight in Ae if I don't need to do more than basic editing or if I don't need to deal with too many footage items.

[Roland Kahlenberg]

AE can of course perform basic edits in the Footage Panel, prior to inserting/overlaying the footage into the Timeline but it's a huge hassle having to load to RAM, the frames for playback. If I need to finesse in/out points then it's PPro for me. Copying clip(s) from PPro to AE has never failed me.

BTW, to the original poster, once you've committed to in-out points in the Footage Panel, the Footage in the Project Panel inherits these cuts. Hence, you do not need to load the footage into the Footage Panel again; you can simply drag them directly from the Project Panel into a Timeline and the in-out points you placed earlier will be adhered to.

[davef52394606 · Accepted solution]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Roland+Kahlenberg  wrote

BTW, to the original poster, once you've committed to in-out points in the Footage Panel, the Footage in the Project Panel inherits these cuts. Hence, you do not need to load the footage into the Footage Panel again; you can simply drag them directly from the Project Panel into a Timeline and the in-out points you placed earlier will be adhered to.

Ahhh, this might be the way to go. 

[davef52394606]

I am not using it to edit, simply dropping a piece of footage into the timeline.  No way I am going all the way out to premiere for that.

[Roland Kahlenberg]

If one click is "all the way" then, dude, you haven't even started!
😉

[davef52394606]

Not really.  Like Roei said.  In that case it would actually be quicker for me to just go through the process again.