Copy a clip from one project to another

Mar 21, 2016 - I am also having the same problem using Adobe Premier Elements 11.

I cannot figure out how to simply save a clip from one project and use it in another project.

I appreciate all the people chiming in with tips, but it is all gobbledegook.

I have an existing project, and want to copy or move a clip from a second project to it, and there is no intuitive way to do so.   As a former business software application developer with 8 years experience, I get really frustrated at the techie approach of Elements with no context sensitive help, and now, you can't even find a Elements 11 help file, just a quagmire of help for all the versions. 

In a PE11 project, why can't I just save as a clip to a video file format that matches the one I just loaded and saved as a project?  This forum discussion is full of gobbledegook and no plain english discussions.   You talk about "export" but there is no EXPORT or Import function.  There is no SAVE or SAVE as for a project clip to a file like mpeg.    Postings discuss a Lagerith codec, and I even installed it but nothing is different and there is no "lossless" choice.  Postings talk about Codec but there is no such label so I have no idea where they are.  After all the discussion about exporting as an AVI  (never once saying use "Publish & Share"), I found that an AVI choice was buried out of sight in a menu with a tiny slider bar that was not obvious.  

This is why I hate video editing and Adobe's poor user interface.   The corporations I worked for would never allow such vague terminology and lack of user context help.

So I finally went to Publish&Share/AVI/MIcrosoft AVI.    I never knew what happened to the acclaimed Lagerith "codec"

Clearly, the designers of this software never designed for non-techies who are power users.

I am about to return to simple Microsoft Movie Maker.

Does anyone have a CLEAR description to answer the simple question "How to copy a clip from one PE11 project to another project without needing 15 clicks and 2 hours of online research"?  Please make sure the text uses the exact terms shown on the workspace and not some other term like export, etc that is NOT part of the menu system. 

ruiz525 wrote: Hello I want to use a clip that I have modifyed to another new project. I tried with copy/past, but they are not transfered to the new project. Thanks anticipated Roberto

Export the clip as an avi with no codec (uncompressed) or a lossless codec like Lagarith.

Then you can use the clip in any project you want and you do not need to keep the original project.

http://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html

Roberto

As I recall you are working with Premiere Elements 10 Windows. Is that correct? If so, you have at least two choices:

a. Export the clip to a file (type, appropriate for your projects) saved to the computer hard drive and then import that file into the second project.

or

b. Use the program ClipMate.

http://www.thornsoft.com/clipmate7.htm

Here is the story with ClipMate. It will work great with your Premiere Elements 10 Windows for the copy/paste transfer between projects. It also works great with Premiere Elements 8.0/8.0.1 and 9. There is a problem of the copy/paste transfers of transitions when one goes to use it in Premiere Elements 11 and problem of the copy/paste transfers of audio and transitions for versions earlier than Premiere Elements 8.0/8.0.1.

I can post a very detailed how to for the use of ClipMate for your Premiere Elements 10 projects if you request it.

We will be watching for your follow up.

Thanks.

ATR