How to move all clips to another video track?

Banji Abereoje · Post by **Banji Abereoje** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:36 pm

Hi all,

Pls I want to ask, using VS10 plus, how I can move all video clips in track 1 (main video track) to the overlay video track without first creating a video file of the footage?

A concept just occured to me after almost finishing editing a 1 hour recording. I discovered I need to move all to an overlay tracks & get something else done in the main video track.

Your response is appreciated.

Banji A.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:42 pm

Click on the first clip on the track, then hold the Shift key and click on the last clip that you want to move. This should highlight the first and last clips, as well as those in between. Now simply drag them to another track.

randazzo · Post by **randazzo** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:58 pm

Don't forget to change your clip dimension settings for the overlay tracks. Otherwise you'll have to do this manually.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 7:26 pm

Yes, what Jean-Pierre is referring to is to make sure the overlay tracks are set for Fit to Screen (found under File>Preferences).

Banji Abereoje · Post by **Banji Abereoje** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:20 pm

Black Lab wrote:.....Now simply drag them to another track.

Thx for your prompt response. I tried this and I was able to select all clips at once BUT cannot get it dragged to another track. What have I not done right? I even made sure the overlay tracks are set for Fit to Screen

Pls still waiting to get this done.

Thanks in adv.

B.A.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:35 pm

I don't know - works for me. Do you have anything else in the track you are trying to move them to? Do you have Ripple Editing for that track on or off?

randazzo · Post by **randazzo** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:36 pm

Make sure you select them all with the shift button.

You could also drag them first to your library manage and from there drag them to the desired video track.

Banji Abereoje · Post by **Banji Abereoje** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:36 am

Black Lab wrote: ... Do you have anything else in the track you are trying to move them to? Do you have Ripple Editing for that track on or off?

I opened a fresh video track with nothing in it. My Ripple editing is off for all tracks..... I even attempted copying it up to Library Manage, it will not paste.

The indication sign I always see, making all these attempts, is a small circle with a slash inside it: I guess, indicating not possible.

Still waiting on u all.

B.A.

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:53 am

Ok let's look at this possibility...

VS10+ or VS11.5+ does not allow transitions in the overlay tracks. So in order to move all the clips in the main track to any overlay tracks, you first must remove all transitions. Then you should be able to move them all as described above.

Copying clips from a track to the library, needs to be into the appropriate libraries. You can not copy image clips into a video library and vice-versa. I done a short quick test, where I had a mixture of video and image clips in a video track. I selected all of them, and dragged it up to the video library. Just the video clips were copied. I then changed to an image library, and repeated the process. Well just the images were copied, so it will allow copying several at a time into the appropriate libraries, just not all the different media into all the different libraries.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:14 pm

VS10+ or VS11.5+ does not allow transitions in the overlay tracks. So in order to move all the clips in the main track to any overlay tracks, you first must remove all transitions. Then you should be able to move them all as described above.

Good call Ron. That could be it.

I opened a fresh video track with nothing in it. My Ripple editing is off for all tracks..... I even attempted copying it up to Library Manage, it will not paste.

You cannot copy & paste. What you want to do is drag & drop.

randazzo · Post by **randazzo** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:49 pm

"Still waiting on u all" ??

It seems to me everyone is doing their best trying to help you. If you just follow their advices all will be ok.

Banji Abereoje · Post by **Banji Abereoje** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:32 pm

Every suggestion has made me discovered additional ways of using VS10 plus. I'm grateful.

Suprissingly, the easiest solution to my problem came very cheap thru the response of Black Lab in another post I made on How can I add live clock/time to video?. Sorry I don't know how to copy out the link but this is the response:

You could do it two ways:

Start a new project and put those 12 clips on the timeline and save as a VSP. Now go back to your original project and insert that VSP into your timeline. It will be treated as one clip and you can add the filter to it.

Or you can render those 12 clips to a video file and insert that into your project, then add the filter.

Jeff

While experimenting this, I stumbled into the solution to another problem.

Thanks all.

B.A.