Moving Clips - how not to lose the audio? Help needed!

[davdav]

Hi,

I have used Premiere Pro 6.0 quite extensively over the years and have recently moved to Premiere Pro CS5.

With Premiere Pro 6.0 I could move/drag clips on the time-line and their linked audio would move with them. If I moved the video clip to another video track, say, above an existing clip, the audio would also move to a free audio track and not automically write over any existing audio. This would allow me to easily reorder clips on the timeline by simply moving them around and using other video tracks as temporary storage locations... and not lose or write over any other existing audio.

However in Premiere Pro CS5 if I do the same thing, the video will move to the other video track I move it to, but the audio will stay in the say audio track and will write-over any existing audio when the mouse button is released. The only way around this I can find in the manual is to: (1) drag the video to the other video track, and (2) press and hold the <SHIFT> key, whilst, (3) draging the linked audio to another audio track to avoid existing audio from being over-written.

My question: Is there a configuation I can set in CS5 to allow moving/draging of clips to work like in Premiere Pro 6.0? I have already messed up multiple times in CS5 by inadvertently over-writing existing audio.

Your expert advice and recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

THANKS IN ADVANCE.

 

[davdav]

Anyone??

 

[Ann Bens]

Nope, holding shift is the now the way to move the audio.

 

[WpgCameraMan]

In CS4 (probably 5 as well, it's a handy thing) you can 'select' video tracks, click somewhere on the track stub on the left side of the time line .. The track stub will be lighter. Now if you drag stuff from a bin to the timeline, it will drop the A/V only on the 'selected' tracks.

This is somewhat akin to locking a track (where it gets fuzzed out) and then nothing can get dropped on it.. but this new system is much better.

Look at this pic:

Video & Audio 1 are highlighted.. if you dragged a clip in this case, it would only land on track 1. Nothing on 2 & 3 would be changed. You can selected more than one track, and have some control ofver where clips land when dragged over, but a `paste`will place the clip on the .. I think .. lowest selected track. And the selected audio & video tracks don`t have to match.

 

[davdav]

Thanks Ann and WpgCameraMan