Cutting and pasting clips and clip settings

You can rearrange existing clips in the Timeline by cutting and pasting. If you simply paste a clip, Premiere inserts it at a selected area in the Timeline by either trimming the clip's Out point to allow it to fit into a gap between two other clips or placing the entire clip. If you want another result, you can control exactly what happens to the clips at the edit point when you paste. This kind of control is most useful when you are pasting a clip of one duration into a selected space of a different duration.

If you have applied settings to a clip and want to use the same settings in another clip, you can easily copy the settings. For example, you might want to apply identical color correction to a series of clips captured in the same session.

To make a clip fit into a selected space when you paste it:

1 Select a clip and choose Edit > Copy.

2 Select an empty segment in the Timeline.

3 Choose Edit > Paste to Fit.

4 Click one of the following options:

To control how a clip pastes into a selected space:

1 Select a clip and choose Edit > Copy.

2 Select an empty segment in the Timeline.

3 Choose Edit > Paste Attributes, and make sure that Content is selected.

4 Select an option from the menu. An animated representation of the option appears in the Content section to help you determine if the selected option is appropriate.

5 Click Paste.

To transfer clip settings to another clip:

1 Select a clip to which effects, fade control, transparency, or motion has been applied in Premiere, and choose Edit > Copy.

2 Select a clip in the Timeline.

3 Choose Edit > Paste Attributes.

4 Click Settings and select the applicable settings you want to paste.

5 Click Paste.

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