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Anonymous
January 28, 2010
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Fast way to duplicate items on the timeline

  • January 28, 2010
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Is there a fast way to duplicate items(Clips,Text,Images) on the timeline?  I'm thinking just like in Photoshop that you can simply select a layer and (Alt + Drag) to duplicate and place the new object into a new layer.  I would like to duplicate an item in the timeline but not necessarly place it on the same track all the time.  I have tried several combinations of Dragging the clip while holding different key combinations but all it does is actually moving the clip to the other track.

Please don't reply with the copying and pasting command.  Thanks.

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    Correct answer cecymtz14

    Alt and drag the clip

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    Headwesty
    Headwesty
    Known Participant
    December 1, 2020

    Alt>Drag doesn't work for me (Premiere Elements 15, WIndows 10).  There doesn't seem to be any combination of modifiers to produce copy.

    cecymtz14
    cecymtz14Correct answer
    Participant
    May 22, 2018

    Alt and drag the clip

      caroline_edits
      Community Manager
      caroline_editsCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      November 19, 2018

      And just in case any Mac users find this thread: it's "option" + drag to a new track.

      -Caroline

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      Demi218554347r3v
      Participant
      November 20, 2021

      It's kinda silly. But it only works if you hit option first then drag the clip, not the other way around.


      Oh my god, I swear I would not have figured this out, I spent so much time doing it the other way around... Thank you so much for this, lol. It is really silly indeed. 

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      Billy_Payn
      Participating Frequently
      January 28, 2010

      Yes, there is a way, start a new timeline with the same settings as the footage you're working on, drag it into the preview window or the project window so you have two timelines open, select the slips you want to duplicate,  drag or control c and control v them on the new

      timeline, (I know what you said but this will work) they appear on the new timeline, now drag them back to the timeline you want them on - voila.

      I'm not sure this is good for the project, I was actually advised not to do this once, but have been doing it for years and it's always worked and not caused any problems.

      Works great as a dump as well.

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      Billy_Payn
      Participating Frequently
      January 28, 2010

      By the way, cut and paste works fine too -

      Colin Brougham
      Colin Brougham
      Participating Frequently
      January 28, 2010

      Nope.

      (Since you said not to reply with C&P...)

      the_wine_snob
      the_wine_snob
      Inspiring
      January 29, 2010

      I wonder why the aversion to C&P too. Unlike a PS image, what you have here are Tracks, and Clips (actually "instances" of Clips), and not Layers. Yes, they do sorta' look alike, but they are very, very different. PS keystrokes, like Ctrl+J (Duplicate Layer) do not work here, because of the differences.

      Hunt

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      Anonymous
      January 29, 2010

           Hello and Thanks for taking the time to take a look at my question.  The reason why Cut and Paste would not work for me is because C&P would always want to be pasted to the same track unless I manualy change the track.  Keystrokes would not be the best choice on this particular case as I would have to change the target track every time I'm going to paste.

           I was simply hoping that there was such a feature just by dragging the clip on the timeline and making a copy of it just in Photoshop.  Yes I know that Photoshop and PPro are two different products but you can make the case that a track in a timeline could be compared to a layer in Photoshop.

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