Every week, Frame.io Insider asks one among our professional contributors to share a tip, software, or approach that they use on a regular basis and couldn’t stay with out. In this text, Jarle Leirpoll takes shares the trick to getting a Premiere Pro Swap Edit proper.
As you in all probability know, transferring a clip round with none modifier key creates a gap within the timeline the place the clip was; whenever you let go, it overwrites no matter is there.
You may additionally know that should you press down the Ctrl/Cmd earlier than you begin dragging, the opening shall be closed with an extract edit. And should you proceed urgent it till after you let go of the mouse button, an insert edit shall be carried out, so no clip is overwritten.
How to Swap Edit in a multi-layered timeline
Unfortunately, that is what number of customers swap clips round within the timeline. It works completely effective in case you have just one observe, however when you’ve clips on different tracks, it creates mayhem!
The correct strategy to do a Swap Edit (aka Rearrange edit) is to press and maintain Ctrl+Alt (Windows) or Cmd+Option (macOS) earlier than letting go of the clip, and solely clips on the observe with the chosen clip shall be swapped. No want to start out urgent earlier than dragging—simply do it earlier than letting go.
Note: Make positive Snapping is on (S toggles it) within the timeline for the Swap Edit to work correctly.
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