Copy and Paste using Range Tool Not Working in Final Cut Pro

The closest I get to making this work is:

Move the playhead to the start of the range select and Command-B (blade). [You can hold down the Option key and clip on a clip to snap the playhead to a specific frame.]

Click the mouse on the starting edge of the bladed clip and type X. [Creates a range of the cut end of the clip]

Drag out the Range to the end point. [any frame]

Copy.

Move the playhead to the target time and paste.

Go back to the starting clip you bladed and select the bladed edge. [not the whole clip]

Go to Trim (menu) > Join Clips to put the pieces back together.

The only advantages to this is 1) that you only have to make one blade cut for the start of the selection and drag out the range to the end. In a regular selection, you'd have to blade the end point as well (if you only need a partial clip), drag a selection and copy/paste. You could also join the temporary cuts back together. 2) The *other* advantage is that dragging the end of the range selection skims the timeline so you have a visual reference of where to end the selection.

The Range tool will only copy a FULL (storyline) clip on the beginning of a Range... go figure. If you start a range in the middle of a clip and drag over to at least a part of one other clip, the paste operation will 1) place a gap (length of the partial first clip selection) and then paste the section of the next clip(s) as you would expect.

Most definitely a UI flaw.

I have never gotten it to work on any version of FCP that I have used. You have to either copy the entire clip in the time line, paste it and then trim it or select a new range from the same clip in the browser and insert it into the time line.

An alternative way: press Shift-F to reveal in browser, and insert, append or connect wherever you want.

This will not paste any effects, transforms or whatnot; if there is any, you can first copy, do the above and then paste attributes.

WAIT: Select a range; Copy; move the playhead; Paste. It IS working for me.

I was away from my mac and since everybody was saying it didn't work, I assumed as much, but yes, it works just fine here.

I don't think this works. I opened up 10.4.10, and it doesn't work there. Maybe something's changed in the OS that prevents it, but I don't ever remember that working.

Weird. It definitely wasn't working for me in the first random project I tried. It is working in simple 1080i project. I remember it used to work across edit points, but not within a single clip.

Yes, I have the latest version, 10.6.1, running on Monterey 12.0.1. I will update the OS to 12.1 later today and don’t expect it to have any impact on the issue at hand.