Put clips back to Project Files

[Jannis Froese]

Hi folks,
When I import a large File from a camcorder or so, I normaly cut it with the razor and rearrange the whole thing.
Now it would be pretty handy to have the ability to move a cutted clip back to the project files, rename it and
put it back into my timeline later.
regards
Jannis

[Andy Finch (fincha)]

This wouldn't be as easy as it sounds. Openshot is a non-destructive editor, which means when you split a clip on the timeline, you are not actually splitting the clip, markers are recorded which tell Openshot where in the clip to start playing, and for how long. To add it to the project as a new clip in it's own right would require rendering the output of the clip in the required positions - time/cpu processor intensive, most likely.

[Jannis Froese (thelion)]

OK, that's a point, but there could for example be a new tab in which you can drag an edited clip. In this tab you could save just all the clip properties as they are used in the timeline. This should be relativ easy or am I missing something again?

[madpentiste (antoine-messiah)]

There is an alternate way to do what you want :

You create an additional track (sort of "spare" or "cabinet" track, with lower priority compared with the existing tracks), and put your clips on it (if needed, you can disable playback of that whole track by clicking on the "no video" and "no audio" icons, or do the same for each clip individually).

Each clip will be recognizable by its distinct thumbnail, which represents the first image of the clip. You then slide each clip on the other tracks as needed.

If you need to playback these clips, you can slide them on one of the other tracks or move them on a region of the "spare/cabinet" track where there is no clip on higher-priority tracks.