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Duplicating Clips and
Transitions in the Timeline
One or more clips can be duplicated by making a selection, and then Option-dragging the
selected clips to another position and/or track in the Timeline. When duplicating clips in this
way, you must hold the Option key down until you release the mouse button.
Individual selected transitions can also be duplicated by Option-dragging them to
another edit point.
Clean Up Video Tracks
While it’s convenient to be able to edit overlapping clips on multiple video tracks to try slipping
clips back and forth, or to stack multiple takes or versions of a VFX clip, there comes a time
when all those unnecessary clips take a toll on the visual organization of your timeline, not to
mention your colorist’s sanity. For this reason, a trio of commands for cleaning up your timeline
have been added to the Timeline > Clean Up Video Tracks menu. These are:
Flatten Unused Clips: All superimposed clips with In and Out points that are aligned
with clips below them are moved down to track V1, so long as they don’t have any kind
of opacity, composite mode, transition, or fade effect applied to them making them a
compositing effect.
Disable Unused Clips: All clips that are underneath superimposed clips that don’t
have any kind of opacity, composite mode, transition, or fade effect applied to them
are disabled.
Change Unused Clips Color: All clips that are underneath superimposed clips that
don’t have any kind of opacity, composite mode, transition, or fade effect applied to
them have their color changed to whatever you select.
(Top) The original timeline, (Bottom) The Flatten Unused Clips command is used to move superimposed
clips with In and Out points that match other clips underneath them to track V1 to simplify the Timeline
for future work
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