So I'm going to give this one more shot since my attempt with Cyberlink support and first (previous) attempt on the forum has provided no value. Maybe I just need to ask the question differently in the hopes that someone has encountered this and has found a reasonable solution.

I have a screen capture video that was taken in one shot using the capture tool from PD 14. It is a single video which liasts roughly 5 minutes. There are about 8 places which had to be cut out / trimmed due to mistakes so I went ahead and made those cuts.

My plan was to then add pan and zoom elements to the final cut video as a whole but learned the 'Combine' feature of PD14 does nothing useful, unless you need to split a background and then combine it back together - that works dandy.

So, what is the process for handling something like this?

Can I do all of my pan and zoom stuff before the edits and then cut pieces out? Will that even work?

Is there a way to have the first key frame of clip 2 start at the exact position and size as specified by the last keyframe of clip 1 so they seemlessly transition?

I have to believe there is some way to accomplish this, right???

I did at least get a response from Cyberlink support and their solution was to produce it as a new clip and then bring that back in to the project.

I would be ok with this if there was an option to produce a selection (like many other video editors have) but I have not yet found any such functionality.

To create a new project, with an application which only allows you one running instance, to simply produce an edited clip to then only shut down that instance and open up your actual project and then bring that clip in - is beyond rediculous.

Somebody... ANYBODY, please show me that this is ALL a lack of understanding on my part and there is some functional / usable way to accomplish was should be the most basic of functionality in a video editing program.

Any information that someone from the community can provide would be GREATLY appreciated, as we all know there certainly won't be any help provided via the support channel.

Thanks,

Bob