I am trying to use the split feature as a workaround to how Powerdirector 11 edits chapter markers when portions of a video are deleted. When I delete portions of a video in Powerdirector 11, I expect Powerdirector to also delete the chapter markers associated with the video that was deleted. However, it does exactly the opposite, and instead saves the chapter markers associated with the video that was deleted, and deletes the chapter markers associated with the video that was not deleted.
As I workaround I use a split instead of a chapter marker when I break up a multi-hour video (that is too long to fit on one DVD) for producing onto several DVDs (with several chapters for each DVD). The splits stay where I want after breaking a large PDS file into smaller ones and I can then easily add the chapter markers afterward, wherever there is a split.
Sometimes during editing I need to move the location of a chapter, hence I need to move a split mark, or remove one and place a new one. I can’t undo the split without undoing all actions I made after I placed the split, which I don’t want to do. How can I simply remove the split, or merge two adjacent portions of a video, separated by a split, back into one piece – without deleting all other portions, producing the two I want merged as one video, and then importing the merged clip back into the original? That seems like an inordinate amount of work for something that should be simple and it loses the raw data contained in the original segments.
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