Discuss: Paste to same track

This went live in version 22.5 (June 2022).  Please update to get this functionality.  Thank you to everyone for you feedback.  Learn more here: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/whats-new/2022-5.html#paste-same-track

While I do appreciate very much the option for different kinds of pastes added, I do NOT appreciate this change being rolled out broadly to all users without warning. I updated my PP to the latest verison recently and suddenly paste stopped working in the way I was used to working for the past +10 years. This is highly disruptive to working editors. I had to spend 30 minutes googling around to figure out why my paste suddenly broke and I can't put clips where I want anymore. Please, Adobe, do not make fundamental changes to app behavior without explicitly asking if this is what we wantet, at least on app launch. Especially when Creative Cloud wants to auto-update all the apps in the suite, we need a way to know and understand what's being done to our tools of the trade. 

As Paste to Same Track matches my good old friend Final Cut Pro 1.25 through 7, I'm very happy to see this come to my good friend Premiere Pro!

I love this. I have gotten used to how it us, but since I put like clips in tracks, i basically always want to padte into the same track. And I love that you can do it both ways.

 Hi Francis, why only provide a half solution? Why not also provide the options to paste and insert paste on the highest enabled video track? This is something that has been requested a long time ago, and it is functionality that's provided by the outstanding Excalibur plugin. It's nice to see this issue finally recieve some attention but it's disappointing to hear that it's only a half solution when a full solution, such as what Excalibur provides, could have just a well been implemented. Please consider providing a FULL solution. I use Excalibur myself, so I'm already benefiting from the full copy pasting solution it offers, but for the sake of all your users who don't use Excalibur, it would be a lot more beneficial to have a full copy pasting solution offered, especially given the fact that pasting to a higher track is often much more desirable than posting to the lowest enabled track for the simple reason that higher tracks naturally contain less media and therefore have more empty space to paste into without overwriting media.

If the argument against implementing a full solution is that it would overcomplicate things, please note that that is a completely moot point since users that want the added functionally would be able to assign keyboard shortcuts to paste / insert paste to highest enabled track, whereas users who don't need that functionality simple could leave those new keyboard shortcut unassigned, as is the case with dozens or even hundreds of other shortcuts that go unassigned because not all users need the same shortcuts.  Therefore no additional complexity would be involved for users that don't need it.  Some users might even want to always paste to the highest enabled track by default, thus removing the Ctrl-V and Shift-V shortcuts from the current paste to lowest shortcuts and assign those same shortcuts to the new paste to highest options.  

Going only halfway with the current solution is truly a missed opportunity and feels like a disservice to your users.  Not everyone works the same way.  Please recognize and respect that fact.  As always, thank you for listening!

Hi Stan,

If you can won't miss the Paste to Atributes default keyboard shortcut too much, that one probably makes the most sense to change for Paste to Targe Track.  

I set CMD + SHIFT + OPT + V for paste insert to same track....  4 keys! but not one that I use that often.   

Hope that helps,

Wes

Is this just in the beta at this point? I'm glad to see this change even though I've gotten used to the other.