That's a GOOD ONE!! It did exactly as you stated. Not very helpful if you are in CLIP mode! It played right through to clip#4.

I don't recall that ever being observed during beta testing. Let's add it to the LONG list!

Kevin
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Good catch, that would be bad as you describe. The other odd thing is you loose the ability to size the clip in the preview window and you loose the blue cross hair, just another indication that you are really in "movie" mode for those two combined clips even though it says "clip" mode.

Jeff

Another good catch Jeff...I didn't try to resize the clips as you did. It seems to be only beneficial if you want to move the group around...not much else.

You also can't apply any Fix/Enhance, Power Tools, Split, Modify...etc. once they are grouped.
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I concur with all above, for whatever that's worth.

I quickly learned that the Group option is very quick and useful tool for a "bulk moving of assets". But then one should immediately Un-Group, or things can start to get weird. Click here PDtoots for a collection of PowerDirector Tutorials and Tips

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Hi Robert,

You can’t grab various individual clips and images scattered across 6 separate tracks, by holding Shift. But yes, one can by holding Control.

But the advantage (or disadvantage), of using the Group tool, is that the chosen clips continue to remain grouped until you ungroup them. So upon review, if you find you missed your new mark by a few frames, you can easily continue to make minor adjustments to fine tune the group placement a number of times, till you get it fine tuned to the perfect placement you want, without having to do a Control hold to group all clips again, for each of those few fine tuning adjustments.

However, once you’ve fine tuned your group to your desired final placement, and then forget to Un-Group, one can get some undesired or unexpected behaviour when continuing to edit the project, owing to that grouping still being grouped.

But you’re right Robert. It is kind of a “six of one - half a dozen of another”, type thing.


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I think the bug is that the clip/movie mode indicator remains on clip. All "other" indicators characterise the group as "movie".

I treat PD9 a little like driving in traffic - just because the guy in front has his left indicator on (but appears to be doing everything to turn right) means I think he's probably turning right but indicating left.

In the subsequent court action, he would say it was a feature of his driving, my lawyer would say it was bad driving and no doubt the judge would decide.

In another area (for me in preliminary testing, anyway) you can choose a number of parameters by customising a production profile, but the resultant file doesn't have those parameters if you use hardware acceleration, but does if you switch HA off. The equivalent of indicating right but turning left??

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The signal lights analogy is an excellent analogy Adrian.
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Maybe CL should sell PD9 "customised" for different countries' driving rules? Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (see below)
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I reported it, November 18th.

Ref: 99/131

Thanks

Dafydd

I know this is a very old post (7 years now).



AND THAT'S WHY THIS PROBLEM SHOULD NO LONGER EXIST.



Also, it happens when I connect audio and video from separate sources.



That is really, really, really annoying.

There can be a lot of reasons to join audio and video (in my case, I edited the audio separatetly: Audacity does a better job in removing noise).

I did not group them, I joined them.



> CyberLink assured me that this is a feature

It is not, it's a straight up bug.

Unless annoying costumers is a feature.