[Rwp] Copying Multiple Items on Multiple Tracks

[Chris Belle]

I have made progress, but it still takes some head scratching is and not 
100 percent and quick intuitive yet.
The main trick is that you can't depend on time based selection alone, 
especially if you want to copy to say the same tracks further down 
stream with a chunk of tracks you copied.
You have to use a combination of splitting up items, and then pasting 
them intact in place.
if you try and just use time selection it will over-write replace 
something down stream, not move it over.
Like the other fellow said too, you can get in to trouble if you have 
different numbrs of items  on different tracks,
so I try and glue things nad have consistant numbers of items when doing 
this.
But for me I select my tracks, make a time selection, then split items 
according to my time selection,
and then make sure I have everything selected for the copy operation.
yes, it's a huge pain in the butt, but now I can get it to work one out 
of 3 times with out a mis-step so we are gaining on it slowly.
I tend to agree with you,
the context things can be ok, but often it it a pain in the back side.
But hey we are fellows from the old school, even though you are way 
smarter than I am 'grin'.
But it makes me feel a bit better hearing this from someone like you,
I don't feel like such a retard.
'grin'.
I'm determined to make this work though,
one of the copy operations
copy selected area of items seems to help but doesn't give any speech 
feedback.
The alt-shift i helps too.
select
all items on selected tracks
in current time selection
helps as well,
but depending on what I last did, the smart copy
control shift c sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.
Ha, it's enough to drive a sane man to heavy
chemical imbibement and
strong desires to inflict
percussive maintainance.



On 3/29/2016 10:14 PM, Snowman wrote:
>     I have decided that I hate context dependent operations.  They 
> only make sense if you are intimately familiar with the UI, and it 
> happens to appreciate your work flow.
> But, if you press one key out of sequence, then you and your 
> application are out of sync, and stuff happens that you didn't intend.
> This business of whether I'm selecting tracks, or items, or items on 
> tracks makes me crazy!
> Tell the guys at cockos that...
> Anyway, has anyone finally figured out how to do this?
> The goal is to identify some portion of your mix with a time 
> selection, and to be able to jsut pick up everthing on all tracks, and 
> move it down the time line to some other location, and paste.
> I can manage to get this to work, but only by moving one item at a 
> time, and working on one track at a time.
> Very tedious.
> So much so that I would rather do the rendering, and then go to sound 
> forge with the final mix, and hack it up instead.
> Anyway, if anyone has conquered this, I'd love to hear about it.
>
>
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