Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 572)

Modifying Selections and Commands Using the Option Key
When you’re working with clips in the Timeline, you can use the Option key to do one
of three things:
• Hold down the Option key while you select a clip to temporarily turn off linked selection
(if it’s on) or turn it on (if it’s off ).
• Hold down the Option key after an item is selected, then drag the item from its original
position to make a duplicate of that item.
• Hold down the Option key after you’ve started dragging a clip and hold it down as you
release the mouse button to perform an insert or shuffle edit (depending on where
you drag the clip in the Timeline). For more information, see
“Moving Items Within the
Timeline.”
Note: If you use the Option key to modify a command and don’t see the results you
wanted, you probably held down the Option key too long or at the wrong time.
In some cases, you need to remember to release the Option key once you have achieved
the result you want. For example, you may hold down the Option key while dragging a
clip to duplicate it. Once you begin dragging the clip, however, Final Cut Pro already
intends to duplicate the clip, and now the Option key tells Final Cut Pro to perform an
insert edit. If you prefer to do an overwrite edit, you need to release the Option key.
Another situation is when you intend to duplicate a clip by pressing the Option key, but
you instead turn off linked selection and only select one clip item. To avoid this, you need
to select the clip first, release the mouse button, and then press the Option key before
dragging it to duplicate it.
Copying, Cutting, and Pasting Clips in the Timeline
When you copy and paste clip items from tracks in the Timeline, Final Cut Pro pastes
those clip items into the same tracks they were copied from unless you specify different
tracks with Auto Select controls. If no Auto Select controls are selected between the time
you copy and paste the clip items, the items are placed on the same tracks from which
they were copied.
To copy (or cut) and paste clip items within the same Timeline tracks
1 Select one or more clip items in the Timeline.
2 Do one of the following, depending on what you want:
• Copy the clip items by pressing Command-C.
• Cut the clip items by pressing Command-X.
3 Position the playhead where you want the paste to occur.
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