Why Does Copy And Paste In Premiere Pro perform so poorly?

[adobeCS10]

Please explain why you can't copy and paste footage (audio and/or video) into a chosen track on a sequence? It almost always pastes into a track with footage already there overlapping footage. It can't paste into a new track??? I thought this is simple logic.

[brianh7756513]

I just can't get this to work. Here are some screenshots:

One, I select and copy the object:

Now I select the track where I want it to go:

Now I paste, and it never goes where I want it to go. This has NEVER worked for me:

Any help would be awesome!

[Stefan Gruenwedel]

What happens if you lock all video tracks except V8? Will it finally paste there?

[brianh7756513]

I'll take a look (at both). Thanks!

[chuckcascio]

This is happening to me too.  it's such a pain in the ass!  I have 27 tracks right now and it insists on pasting all over the place.  Even with a giant monitor, it takes forever to drag clips from T1 to T24. and locking all the track is just annoying...

[Stefan Gruenwedel]

This isn't the answer to the paste problem you're experiencing but you can (maybe) move your clips up/down the timeline faster by holding down Open (Mac) / Alt (Win) and pressing the up/down arrow keys.

Rearrange clips in a Premiere Pro sequence

https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/quick-tip-nudge-clips-in-premiere-pro/

[jotasprout]

That's how I have to paste everything. Lock every layer but the one I want to paste on. So I just keep all layers locked except for the one I'm working with. Otherwise, I have to scroll to the end of the timeline, paste, then move what I pasted.

[Stefan Gruenwedel]

We recently published a tutorial on sync locking and track targeting, so I'm adding a link to this thread to help anyone who might be confused by how copy/paste works: Streamline editing with timeline-based techniques

(Apologies if you already know this info by heart and still have problems copying/pasting clips on the timeline.)

[jotasprout]

Thanks for the link. Watching it now. I think someone already posted this in another thread -- but I hate video tutorials. I hate sitting through content I don't care about, chatty stuff, waiting for what I need when I could scan and read an article in a tiny fraction of the time. Ooooooh, I take that back ... I just noticed those little blue dots with labels! And ... learned some really useful stuff I've been wanting to know -- thanks. None of it addressed the pasting issue, though.

[Stefan Gruenwedel]

Any chance you could post a video of how copy/paste is not working for you, despite the proper use of track targeting in your sequence?

[PaulGrogan]

I'm on the latest version of PrP and I'm having the same issue.

On the left, I select V3 or A2 or whatever, but when I paste in (copying a clip from another project), it just always puts it on V1, overwriting what I have there. So yeah, look at the forums, find this one from 9 months ago and I'm having exactly the same issue.

[Ann Bens]

Did you target the track and put the cti in the desired position?

[PaulGrogan]

Not sure what you mean by cti.

Here is a screenshot. I selected the "Whatdafun" audio clip you can see on A3 on the far left

I then have the A3 row selected but everytime I press Ctrl+V, it always adds it to A1.

Now, I know here I can just alt+click drag to copy it, but lets say I'm copying a clip from another project, so I need to copy and paste

[yairb999]

Turn off A1 & A2 track targeting (the blue squares).

[R Neil Haugen]

"Yairb" is right. Most of us don't really think of how to use those targeting controls to speed things along ... paying a little attention to them as your projects get more 'dense' is a great use of time ... it will speed things along nicely.

You can even set keyboard shortcuts to toggle specific targets on/off, so you don't even need the mouse to shift where things will "land". In the Keyboard shortcuts dialog (Ctrl/Alt/K) just put "targ" in the search box, the various available shorts that you can select to use will appear.

Neil

[Ann Bens]

[PaulGrogan]

Thanks. Got it!

[viveredesign]

PP really really really really needs a paste "feature" that is more intuitive, and more like every other program in existence.

PP should know the intended paste-target of the user either by last-clicked in the timeline or left-side or some left-side checkbox/icon. The UI would the show this target track highlighted or something, then when user pastes, the clip is where the user expects it to be.

Right now, we must untarget all but the target track first? I don't run this program every day, but cannot understand how Adobe engineers arrived at this UX choice.

It really wastes a lot of time for a lot of people, obviously from this and countless other threads. Until PP users finally get fed-up and look up this problem, users are flummoxed by clips always pasting over the worst possible track-choice with no apparent control over whey they paste.

I would have expected better for my $650/year (we all used to pay about $700 every 2-3 years for actual feature updates).

Of course, when this finally get added, Adobe will be sure to promote it as a "new and exciting feature" along with the other list of yawn-triggering bullet-point bug-fixes sold as "features."

[Peru Bob]

State your case here:

Feature Request/Bug Report Form

and here:

Premiere Pro: Hot (4087 ideas) – Adobe video & audio apps

[gerardw25826685]

Go  to drop down menu EDIT >keyboard shortcuts> when the keyboard menu opens highlight the CTRL button, then the V button. At the bottom to the right it will show what's assigned. Mine had +PASTE and +PASTE TO SAME TRACK. I removed the latter and VIOLA no more issue with pasting to the wrong track!!!!

[gerardw25826685]

Try going  to drop down menu EDIT >keyboard shortcuts> when the keyboard menu opens highlight the CTRL button, then the V button. At the bottom to the right it will show what's assigned. Mine had +PASTE and +PASTE TO SAME TRACK. I removed the latter and VIOLA no more issue with pasting to the wrong track!!!!

[floamdaddy]

God, it's so insane, isn't it? All the effort that goes into finding workarounds. Why do we pay for a half functional program? Gerard2526083737yj pointed out that it works properly but only from edit menu, and not from cmd+v, T...

[Gerard2526083737yj]

Continue reading my post. Ctl+v worked after changing the keyboard shortcut settings. I agree it frustrating when work arounds sometimes need to be applied. Designed features should be intuitive to the end-users. Remove the "paste to same track" will have copied material pasted to the targeted track.

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[Ann Bens]

Does alt+drag work for you?

[gerardw25826685]

Yes.  But I've heard other users complain about that causes program to freeze after the update.

[caroline_edits · Accepted solution]

Hey there – you might have luck by learning about track targeting! If I'm not paying attention to my targets, my timeline gets real messy real quick. 

Hope this helps!

Caroline