FCP Clip Issues

How are you selecting the clips you are moving and copying, range tool, I&O points, double clicking? The reason I am asking is that I had a similar problem and discovered that I was not selecting the entire clip. Another problem I had was that I was not getting the playhead exactly between two clips when pasting a copied or moved clip. This cut the existing clip when the new clip was pasted. I solved this by using the arrow keys to position the playhead, not the mouse.

As a little addition to what Larrie said: this can happen more easily if the timeline is zoomed out considerably. Two things that may help in this instance are to zoom in a bit, or to turn on Snapping. The shortcut to toggle Snapping is just the letter N. With Snapping on, the playhead will “snap” to the edit point when you are very close to it. Also, there are shortcuts to move to the next edit point and the previous edit point (I am away from my mac and can’t remember off the top of my head, but one of them is a semicolon and the other is next to it.

Edit: It’s a single quote!

Up and down arrows move to previous and next edit event.

Tom Wolsky wrote:

Up and down arrows move to previous and next edit event.

Thanks, Tom. These are an alternative that is probably easier to remember, too.