Copy/paste a clip into a spesific track

[Thomas Singh]

When I copy / paste a clip from one timeline to another in Davinci Resolve, how do I determine what track it should be pasted into? Now I disable every other track than the one I want to lay it down on, but that seems a bit cumbersome.

[Margus Voll]

Imo it works like in Premiere or in FCP.

 

[Thomas Singh]

I'm not familiar with those, but I've worked professionally as a Symphony editor for over 15 years and it sure doesn't behave the same way as avid. I found that I need to alt-click the square button (with two arrows inside) to solo the track to be able to paste the clip on the spesific track.

[Arthur Ditner]

Not entirely sure what you mean by "disable every other track", are you actually turning the tracks off? I would avoid that as disabling tracks outright will affect your caching.

To paste to a specific track you use the "Auto Select" tool, which is to the left of the enable/disable track button.

If you hold option/alt on the keyboard before clicking the desired track, all unwanted tracks will turn off - much like hitting the solo button in an audio application.

If there are multiple layers in your clipboard all will be pasted, starting with the lowest layer in the clipboard corresponding to the lowest layer with auto select turned on.

 

[Abby Bader]

Welcome to this forum Arthur!

[Thomas Singh]

Thank you so much Arthur!