Keyboard Shortcut to Lift Video Up/Audio Down One Track Simultaneously

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February 22, 2018
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Say that I have two 10 second adjacent clips on the timeline both on track 1. (Therefore the video is now 20 seconds long.) I want to take the second of the two clips and move it atop of the first clip so that the video is now only 10 seconds long with clips on video tracks 1& 2. (I did not overlay the first clip with the second clip. I moved the second clip to track two.)

The method I use to accomplish this is to first move the second video clip up one track (to video track 2) and then move the audio track down one track (to audio track 2) and then move them both over to the left. I now have clips on both tracks 1 & 2--audio and video.

So the question is: Is there a keyboard shortcut which, when I lift the second video up, the audio clip will automatically move down one track. In this way, I would only have one operation rather than two.

Correct answer christopher.gun

Unfortunately after the latest update, this feature seems to disappear, before I can just hold shift and drag the clip to the track above and the audio would follow (went below the following track V2/A2 and so on).

I have no idea why Adobe need to remove this great time saving feature, now I need to drag the V up first, then only the A down, which can be time consuming at times.

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Rodrigo_Coutinho

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Go at keaboard scortcuts window and search for: Nudge clip selection up/down

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lukem27796782

Participant

Adobe calls this command "Nudge Clip Selection Up/Down" I had to set these to Opt-Up, Opt-Down.

stefan_gru

Inspiring

dgfitzpat1117: Try the Alt/Option + Up/Down arrow shortcut, which moves video and audio vertically up/down tracks simultaneously. AFAIK, the video and audio move up/down in unison; you can't make the video move up while the audio moves down.

Here are two clips side by side:

Select the second clip and then move the video up one track by pressing Option + Up Arrow (on macOS):

By pressing Up and Down, you can see how the clips move vertically up/down the timeline. You'll get the proper spacing eventually but I'm not sure how much time this saves you.

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christopher.gunCorrect answer

Participant

Unfortunately after the latest update, this feature seems to disappear, before I can just hold shift and drag the clip to the track above and the audio would follow (went below the following track V2/A2 and so on).

I have no idea why Adobe need to remove this great time saving feature, now I need to drag the V up first, then only the A down, which can be time consuming at times.

stefan_gru

Inspiring

christopher.gun I just tried to Shift-drag a linked clip in Premiere Pro 2015.1 and 2017.0.2 and am not able to see what you describe. The audio part of the clip does not move automatically down to a lower A track as I drag the video part of the clip up to a higher V track.

Instead, a cool feature what was introduced in the 2018 release is the ability to press Alt/Option and press Up/Down to move the video and audio portions in unison, up and down the V and A tracks. What people are asking for in this forum post is the ability to move these clip portions in opposite directions, not in the same direction. For that, you'll need to make a feature request: Feature Request/Bug Report Form