Ok,

This topic has certainly come up a time or two and I've spent an hour or so reading over the various posts and rants from a few unhappy PD users. I am going to approach this from a lack of understanding / something I am missing approach in the hopes that there is a suitable way of handling this situation. I am trying to do what I've done in several other video editing programs and so far, to no avail.

I have a 5m video that I recorded. 4m or so of it is a keeper, but there is about a minute or so of footage that I want to remove which results in about 8 or 10 clips of video being cut out. Ultimately, I want to add some panning and zooming to the entire video and not have to do this in 10 different chunks. If this is a requirement of power director (sad), then what is the process for ensuring your key frame transitions and positioning match up from clip to clip?

In other applications you could simply make your edits, stitch it all back together and then add other elements to the single video, including panning, zooming, etc. just as you could if you had taken the perfect video in one shot with NO mistakes, but alas, I'm just not that skilled - and had to edit my video.

I keep seeing people say that "Combine" works if you are combing clips that were previously created from the same video clip, but that sure doesn't work for me. I have yet to see the "Combine" option ever be lit up in the menu (always greyed out). Is this only to combine two clips back together that have been split if NO changes of any kind have ever been made to either clip? If so, then... that is beyond stupid. PD is then simply providing a redundant CTRL+Z, which I just don't need. I'm pretty partial to that key combination, we've been friends a long time.

So, if someone can confirm for me once and for all if you can combine clips you have split back in to a single video using a "Combine" feature - that would be sweet. If you cannot do this, what is the method in PD for cutting up a video and then aplying various elements and effects to THAT edited video? If I have to go in to each clip of the original video and work with keyframes on an individual basis, then I am hugely disapointed in this application and its creators.

Thanks, all.

Bob