Pasteing clips in Premiere Pro CS4 can suck my lolipop

[Bauzi]

Ok there are two things that piss me off in Premiere Pro CS 4. I'm really fine with the rest, but issue #2 gets on my nerves.

#1 The help file system sucks ass. I don't want to get in detail, but the help file doesn't do it as well

#2 When I paste a clip into a composition or drag it into a composition it creates a new layer or puts the clip in one certain video layer. At least it doesn't paste it into the layer that I've selected. How can I change it? It's such a nasty default setting that raelly makes me mad >_>

[Kariudo]

Still using pro 1.5 here, but I thought that you had to click the video layer tab (not the timeline) on the very left (of the timeline window), and then clips are pasted into that selected layer at the timeline marker's position.

You probably already knew that, but it's the only thing that comes to mind

[Bauzi]

Yeah I switched from 1.5 to CS4.

Thx, but I already knew it.

Uhm now I know what's wrong:
He only pastes the clip into the layer where the clip is comeing from. So if the clip is in layer 2 than he will always copy it to layer 2. Even if it's not selected.
When the clips was in a different comp in layer 5 and you copy it into a 4 layer big comp... well it will generate the 5th layer for the clip.

What bullshit =/

[mirkosp]

I don't see how the help file isn't good enough, honestly, it seems pretty detailed to me: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/4.0/
As for the issue #2...yeah, I have to admit that is a lame thing of CS4. I thought it was a bug or something due to the fact that I have the beta version, but apparently, it's still there in the final version, from what you say. A shame, I guess.
But I like a lot the new things of it, so I guess I can let this slide, personally. >_>

[Bauzi]

@mirkosp: The help file is bad. When I hover something because I wanted to know the name of the function and than search for this keyword and get no results than it's a bad help file. There often doesn't even stand the default hotkeys in it (I know that I can look them up in the programm itself, but it's annoying.

When I think about the helpfiles of my After Effects than there is a good difference between them in quality.

[blabbler]

my copy doesn't do this. did you get the updates?

[Bauzi]

No. I always abort them. I think I should get 'em

[Bauzi]

installing the updates for version 4.1.0 "fixed" it. Thanks for the suggestion