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The Placement Tool

Although the Placement Tool remains an extremely flexible paste option most important operations are
directly available as single commands in the Edit menu. All these commands can be mapped to a key-
board key or included in a macro. In most cases, this is a far more efficient way to work.
Several different placement options for a Paste action can be chosen from the Edit menu or from the
pop-up menu which appears if there is something to be pasted and the cursor is over a track when you
right-click E.g. Paste to Cursor.
Placement tool floating Window
Open the Placement Tool window by selecting Paste & Place... from the right-click Paste options
above, or choose Edit > Paste Place from the Edit menu.
The Placement Tool window allows the user to customize the placement of a clip in extremely power-
ful and flexible ways.
The button layout corresponds to the numeric pad on a standard keyboard.
.Select a Paste Place action by choosing amongst the sequence of lit buttons in the window.
For example, you could choose to Send the Sync Point of a clip to a typed Time Code location on a
Destination Track chosen from a pop-up list; or you could Send the Tail of a clip to the Play Cursor.
Nearly every permutation of placement is possible. Whatever action you choose, the results of your
choices will be displayed as text in the lower-right corner of the window before you choose to Do It!
Remember to choose an Insert Mode to determine how the surrounding clips will be adjusted when
the new clip is placed in the Track.
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