I keep needing to do this - past a clip in, replacing an identically sized part of the main track - but only just got around to looking for the ‘best’ way.
Basically there wasn’t one, and it hasn’t been discussed for years - so I worked on out and thought I’d put this up…
Copy the section you want to paste to the clipboard
Paste it into a new track, position it where you want it inserted into the main track
Select the clip (it is probably already selected from the insert/positioning)
Select in all tracks (Ctrl-Shift-K)
Delete (Ctrl-K)
Paste (Ctrl-V)
Remove the track you added at step 2.
Just put this here for the next person who googles for it!
Thanks for the tip pperrin. That’s similar to the way I do it.
My steps (in this case, copying one part of a track into another place):
Select the part to be copied
Ctrl+D (duplicate the selected audio to a new track)
Enter (de-select the original selection)
F5 (Time Shift tool)
Drag the duplicate clip to where you want it inserting
F1 (back to the selection tool)
Enter (de-select the duplicate clip)
Up cursor (move focus to the original track)
Enter (select the same region in the original track)
Ctrl+L (silence the selection)
and I’d normally leave it at that - no real need to merge the tracks into one, but if the project is getting too big (too many tracks), it can be mixed down into a single track with:
Ctrl+A (select all)
Tracks menu > Mix and Render
That looks a lot when listed click by click, but basically it’s: Ctrl+D → drag into position → Ctrl+L (and use the Enter key as necessary to ensure the right part is selected)
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