I often need to move a clip - typically an audio clip - vertically on the timeline, from one track to another. This is often, though not always caused by the fact that Avid forces me to lay a clip on to a specific track, after which I might want the clip to lay on another track. This need may arise either when the audio clip is the same length as it's appropriate video clip, or after I have edited, so that the audio clip in or out point extends before or after the in/out point on the video clip.
I find that when using the mouse and simply moving the clip vertically, it almost always lands between 1 and 4 frames out of sync to the audio/video clip to which it belongs, necessitating a time-consuming zoom in on the timeline to see the correct position.
Is there a simple keyboard shourcut when moving a clip vertically that prevents the clip being moved from moving horizontally - or that "magnets" the clip being moved to it's partner?
Any words of wisom out there?