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Using the Cut/Copy Head and Tail Commands
Four additional commands make it easy to cut or copy portions of one or more selected clips
that intersect the playhead, either from the In point to the current position of the playhead (the
Head), or from the current position of the playhead to the Out point (the Tail).
To cut or copy the head or tail of a clip:
1 Select the clip or clips you want to cut or copy the head or tail of in the Timeline.
2 Move the playhead so that it intersects the clip you want to cut or copy at the frame you
want to define either the end of the head or the beginning of the tail.
3 Choose Edit > Cut/Copy Head/Tail to cut or copy the portion of the selected clip you
want to paste.
4 You can now paste what you copied or cut using any of the
previously described methods.
Copying and Pasting Clips to a Different Track
If all Auto Select controls on all tracks are turned on, clips are always pasted back to the same
track they were copied from, starting at the position of the playhead. This is valuable for the
many instances where you’ll find yourself copying and pasting clips you want to repeat,
especially when doing audio editing.
However, if you want to paste the clips you cut or copied to a different track entirely, you need
to use the Auto Select controls to specify which track you want to paste to.
Here are the rules:
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You can force paste what you copied to a specific track by Option-clicking that
track’s Auto Select control to solo it before pasting.
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When one or more Auto Select controls are disabled, then clips are pasted to the
lowest-numbered track with an enabled Auto Select control.
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If you’ve copied clips on multiple tracks, clips on the lowest copied track will be
pasted to the lowest Auto Select enabled track, and all other clips will be pasted to
higher tracks, with new tracks automatically created, if necessary.
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If Auto Select is disabled on every single track, then a new track will be created
above all other video tracks and/or below all other audio tracks, and the clip will be
pasted into this new track, which has Auto Select turned on.
Audio Channels When Copying and Pasting Audio Clips
Copying and pasting audio has one other consideration. If you’re force pasting a clip into a
different track, the track you solo the Auto Select control of could possibly be set to an audio
channel mapping that doesn’t match the clips you’re pasting there. An example of when this
would happen is if you copy stereo audio clips from a stereo track and paste them to a mono
audio track.
DaVinci Resolve allows you to do this, so you have the freedom of pasting audio clips to any
track you want to. However, extra audio channels within clips that exceed the number of
channels supported by the audio track they’re on will be muted. Fortunately, this situation is
easy to rectify. Simply right-click the track header of the problem audio track, and use the
Change Track Type To submenu to change its channel mapping to one more appropriate to the
clips you’ve pasted into it.
Chapter – 29 Modifying Clips in the Timeline 613