Moving mutliple clips on the timeline

MichaelJ70

Newbie Location: England Joined: Jun 14, 2012 03:00 Messages: 35 Offline

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Jun 16, 2012 05:47

Having worked my way through most of the aspects of PowerDirector 10 without too many tears in the last 48 hours, I am stuck again on something that I am sure is very simple. I want to move a multiple section of clips along the time line. I have tried holding down Control (as indicated in the manual) and dragging over the clips. I have tried using the yellow rectangle to highlight the section, but I can't get 'Group Objects' to activate when I right click. The only options I get are Cut, Copy, Remove. What am I doing wrong? How do I physically Group/Ungroup an adjacent series of clips and then move them?

Michael J Michael J.

ponderstibbons

Newbie Location: Champion Lakes, Western Australia Joined: Jan 19, 2011 08:28 Messages: 42 Offline

Jun 16, 2012 06:06

Hi Michael.
I just tried putting 3 stills and a video on timeline 1.
Then clicked on clip one, then held ctrl while I clicked on the video.
This highlighted both clips and then when I let go of the ctrl key both clips remained highlighted.
Then I dragged them both to timeline 2 and messed about on TL1 with the remaining clips and finally dragged the clips back from TL2 to TL1.
If you need more timelines you can create them by right clicking in the left hand vertical bar (with the lock icon in it) and selecting the "add tracks..." item.

One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man, he had the Vote.
Terry Pratchett (Mort).

MichaelJ70

Newbie Location: England Joined: Jun 14, 2012 03:00 Messages: 35 Offline

Jun 16, 2012 07:20

Thanks for coming back so promptly. I'm still not quite there on what you are recommending. OK, I have a section of stills and videoclips that I want to move on(or from Timeline1). I left click the first still to highlight it. Then hold down Control and click on the 'video'. When you say 'video' is this the small yellow screen icon that sits above the timeline in company with the blue down arrow? If so, by dragging across the section I want to move I highlighted the section (in yellow), but then couldn't see how to move it. It wouldn't drag. All I could do was to Copy and Paste it, and the only place it would paste was into the next vacant section of Timeline1.

Can you elaborate in 'idiot proof' language!!!

Michael J

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Michael J.

PlaySound

Senior Contributor Joined: Dec 02, 2010 10:26 Messages: 2031 Offline

Jun 16, 2012 07:31

In PD10 to move one or more videos in the timeline, select, drag the mouse holding the new position, it may even be in another band, if you have content in the position to choose between overwrite or insert

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Jun 16, 2012 07:33

Hi Michael -

I made the attached screen capture one handed. It was on the mouse. No Ctrl. No shift (although sometimes that's needed). Just click 'n drag.

I hope it helps.

Cheers - Tony

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ponderstibbons

Newbie Location: Champion Lakes, Western Australia Joined: Jan 19, 2011 08:28 Messages: 42 Offline

Jun 16, 2012 10:46

PDtoots has done visually (and therefore much better) what I was trying to explain. One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man, he had the Vote.
Terry Pratchett (Mort).

MichaelJ70

Newbie Location: England Joined: Jun 14, 2012 03:00 Messages: 35 Offline

Jun 16, 2012 11:08

Brilliant! Thank you both for some very helpful stuff. The PDToots clip reveals a lot. I used to work in UK TV, but in front of camera, and having theoretically put my feet up in retirement, I am now on a vertical learning curve about what really goes on in edit suites!

Michael Michael J.