diff --git a/src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx b/src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx
index 60a209b6f..13e5c1c47 100644
--- a/src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx
+++ b/src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx
@@ -1203,22 +1203,17 @@ export function NewEditorShell() {
 			return;
 		}
 
-		// An effect region goes with its definition (`RegionSnapshot`), and with the span of the
-		// whole pill: one cut by a clip boundary is several fragments.
+		// The pill on screen, not the fragment clicked: a region cut by a clip boundary is several.
+		const { wholePillOf } = await import("@/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap");
+
+		// An effect region goes with its definition (`RegionSnapshot`).
 		if (sel.kind === "shaderEffect") {
-			const { coalesceRegionsForRuler } = await import("@/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap");
-			const pill = coalesceRegionsForRuler(tl.shaderEffectRanges).find((p) =>
-				p.ids.includes(sel.id),
-			);
-			const definition = pill && tl.shaderEffects.find((e) => e.id === pill.member.effectId);
-			if (!pill || !definition) return;
+			const region = wholePillOf(tl.shaderEffectRanges, sel.id);
+			const definition = region && tl.shaderEffects.find((e) => e.id === region.effectId);
+			if (!region || !definition) return;
 			copyRegion({
 				kind: "shaderEffect",
-				region: {
-					...pill.member,
-					startMs: Math.round(pill.start * 1000),
-					endMs: Math.round(pill.end * 1000),
-				} as unknown as Record<string, unknown>,
+				region: region as unknown as Record<string, unknown>,
 				definition,
 			});
 			setCopiedClipId(null);
@@ -1233,7 +1228,10 @@ export function NewEditorShell() {
 					: sel.kind === "speed"
 						? tl.speedRegions
 						: tl.cameraFullscreenRegions;
-		const region = (source as Array<{ id: string }>).find((r) => r.id === sel.id);
+		const region = wholePillOf(
+			source as Array<{ id: string; startMs: number; endMs: number }>,
+			sel.id,
+		);
 		if (!region) return;
 		copyRegion({ kind: sel.kind, region: region as unknown as Record<string, unknown> });
 		// One clipboard wins at a time: a copied pill retires the copied clip.
diff --git a/src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap.test.ts b/src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap.test.ts
index 11aa30c50..d613614bb 100644
--- a/src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap.test.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import {
 	resolveNativePosition,
 	resolvePillIds,
 	resolveRegionIds,
+	wholePillOf,
 } from "./timelineMap";
 
 function clip(overrides: Partial<AxcutClip> & Pick<AxcutClip, "id" | "assetId">): AxcutClip {
@@ -787,6 +788,18 @@ describe("pills wired to the universal rules", () => {
 		expect(pills[0].ids).toEqual(["a", "b"]);
 	});
 
+	it("wholePillOf gives the pill a fragment belongs to, over its whole span", () => {
+		// One zoom cut by the clip boundary at 25.557 s: two fragments, one pill.
+		const regions = [
+			{ id: "a", startMs: 20000, endMs: 25557, depth: 3 },
+			{ id: "b", startMs: 25557, endMs: 30000, depth: 3 },
+			{ id: "c", startMs: 30000, endMs: 31000, depth: 5 },
+		];
+		expect(wholePillOf(regions, "b")).toEqual({ id: "a", startMs: 20000, endMs: 30000, depth: 3 });
+		expect(wholePillOf(regions, "c")).toEqual(regions[2]);
+		expect(wholePillOf(regions, "gone")).toBeNull();
+	});
+
 	it("keeps adjacent regions with different properties as separate pills", () => {
 		const pills = coalesceRegionsForRuler([
 			{ id: "a", startMs: 2000, endMs: 5000, speed: 3 },
diff --git a/src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap.ts b/src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap.ts
index 451987ce9..80f77ed4d 100644
--- a/src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap.ts
+++ b/src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap.ts
@@ -304,6 +304,24 @@ export function coalesceRegionsForRuler<T extends { id: string; startMs: number;
 	}));
 }
 
+/**
+ * The pill `id` belongs to, as one region: its first member over the pill's whole span. A pill
+ * cut by a clip boundary is several fragments, and copying the fragment clicked would paste a
+ * shorter region than the one on screen. `null` when no region has that id.
+ */
+export function wholePillOf<T extends { id: string; startMs: number; endMs: number }>(
+	regions: T[],
+	id: string,
+): T | null {
+	const pill = coalesceRegionsForRuler(regions).find((p) => p.ids.includes(id));
+	if (!pill) return null;
+	return {
+		...pill.member,
+		startMs: Math.round(pill.start * 1000),
+		endMs: Math.round(pill.end * 1000),
+	};
+}
+
 /**
  * The regions that render as the SAME pill as `id`. Recomputed from the merge rule
  * rather than stored: nothing records which regions belong together, because equal