I offer no solution, but I will attest that it does the same thing for me.

Not changing the speed, in fact, if I adjust the end time of the clip the other clips will move ahead even though I do not have the "link all tracks..." checked. I can move the end of the clip closer to the clips on the right, and they do not move, but if I move the end of the clip to the left the clips on the right follow.

Definitely a bug. Richard

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This is where the always empty "junk track" is very useful.
Keep a track open at all times, and if you need to modify a file, drag it into your junk-track, modify the length, then bring it back into your timeline.
This is also useful for deleting content without disturbing the rest of your timeline. Drag the unwanted file into the junk -track, delete, and nothing else moves!
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Hi Barry, and thanks for your reply.

Warning, not to come across sounding unappreciative of the other member's help, but this is going to be a bit of a rant.

I can understand the usefulness of a "junk" track to work in, and I DO do that often, but we shouldn't have to move a clip to a "safe" track just to adjust the length if their is space to the right of it, especially if we do not have "Link all tracks..." selected.

Take a hour hour project for example. I have most of the media needed and begin a complex project. I don't have everything I need but begin laying it all on the timeline. I end up with more media that comes to for 15-20 minutes. I already have most of the rest (to the right) done and need to make some adjustments to the scene 15-20 minutes. I already am using 3 tracks is this scene and now this problem comes into play. With the limitations of PD I cannot simply adjust the length of one clip to adjust the timing with the 2 other tracks because it will mess up the synchronization of the media to the right of this scene. I cannot just move the one clip to a junk track as I need the other 2 tracks to work with. I cannot even select using the scrubber and paste after everything to the right as I cannot move the scrubber past the last clip.

So my "work around" is to temporarily place "something" on the timeline past the last clip in the project so I can paste the selected media between that and the last clip in the project, do my editing, select and copy the edited clips and repaste it back it the space in the timeline.

This is so full of potential for messing up the sync of other media that it makes my stomach knot up.

I believe that this should be a fix.

Again, please do not read sarcasm into this as I do appreciate the help that is offered. My beef is with Cyberlink. This could be such a simple issue for them to correct if "Link all tracks..." is not selected, everything on the timeline should not move!

Thanks Richard

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Sorry, double post Richard

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If nothing else, "Link all Tracks" should NOT be buried in the PREFERENCES UI, it should be a more prominent part of the Timeline UI. That is a definite. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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Quote: If nothing else, "Link all Tracks" should NOT be buried in the PREFERENCES UI, it should be a more prominent part of the Timeline UI. That is a definite.

I had demanded THAT already for v8 of PD...
Michael.

My vote is for Barry on the R7D team for CL.

That would be the obvious place to put a "toggle" button for this purpose, that is after they get that feature to work as I believe it should.
Richard

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Quote: If nothing else, "Link all Tracks" should NOT be buried in the PREFERENCES UI, it should be a more prominent part of the Timeline UI. That is a definite.

I had demanded THAT already for v8 of PD...
Michael.

It's a request that has been made over many versions, and it's surprizing that CL has not seen fit to ever act on it.




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