Absolutely you can do what you wish.

For example you can have a master clip in the top time line and a sub-clip on the PIP line(s)
You can then watch along any one track with the others turned off until you find a section which you like.
Make spit points Ctrl-T at approx the start and end of a section

Do this along all the tracks you have on-screen.

Now what you do is complex to describe but you will get the hang of it by trying.

lets say that on the master track at 1 minute 20 seconds you want to inset a section from track 2
You go to that point on track 1 and drag an empty space at that point by dragging the second section of track 1 off to the right. You will now have track 1 ending at 1m 20s and a big gap and then the remainder of track 1

Now on track 2 you need to drag the wanted section to the left until it is positioned under the gap on track 1

If you played everything now you would see travk1 then track 2 then track 1 again.

Now, on track 2 you need to double click and make it fill the screen since by default is only shows as part-screen .

Do this for all the segments you wish to insert into track 1

When you get good at that you will eventually want to do clever tricks like fades and other transitions but for now just do jump cuts

You can also have the output be

track1 track2 track2 track3 track1 track4

Hope you understand this. If you can't solve the problem - Change the problem

Hi

Thanks for you reply! That sounds exactaly like what I need to do and how I have tried to do it but I had been using the master track and it won't allow you to just drag the sections around, but now I use the pip tracks I see you can do this!

Thanks, great advice!
Derek

Hi, right I am messing aroung with using the pip tracks but I've stumbled over some problems. In the master track I can copy and paste a section no problem, however in the pip tracks I don't seem to be able to copy and paste.

Also, when I bring something into the pip track it is smaller in the screen and I have to drag it out every time, is there a way to make it full screen.

Sorry for all the questions, I have 8 x 2 & 1/2 hour videos to edit and the quicker I do these little functions the better!

Thanks again for the help, very much appreciated!
Derek

When a video is placed on a PIP track it is smaller by default. In doing so you can see that there is something behind it (or not)
You now edit/cut slide around to get it in the correct time placement.
Then you either click Modify or you can double-click on the PIP segment and it will open a window where you can grab the highlighted cornera and drag them to be eirher full-screen or bigger.

Why? because in other editing scenarios you may not just want to butt-joint or overlay the title track. Your PIP track could be a transparent image or one with motion moving across the screen.

In other words your PIP track can do hundreds of things you have not thought of yet.

Practice and experiment - You will amaze yourself.

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If you can't solve the problem - Change the problem

Thanks! Great advice! Basically I have just started using this software and have a deadline to meet. Hopefully once it is over I can relax a little and realy get to know what it can do! It seems very powerful and usefull, once you know what to do!

How about copying and pasting in pip tracks? Is this possible?

Thanks!
Derek

Sorry, another quick question.

If I have a PD file with sa6 6 clips in the time line that I have split from one original file, is there a way of selectring say clip 3 and just producing this one and not the rest? OR can you produce each clip to output as a seporate file rather than one colplete movie so you would get 6 clips?

Thanks,
Derek

Not really, but there is a kind of a cheat mthod

Start with 6 clips in the timeline

SAVE THE PROJECT. !!!

Delete as many clips as you like

Produce the video

Now, back in Edit, type Ctrl-Z control and z repeatedly and you should start seeing the clips re-appear as the undo is putting them back up to a maximum set in your undo preferences.
If you lose everything clear the workspace from the File menu and load the last project again.

Dodgy but it works. Test it with a few samples before spending hours editing, cuz its the software equivalent of russian roulette with a semi-automatic If you can't solve the problem - Change the problem

yeah, I had done similar but I have so many to do it's taking ages! cheers!