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cymroNewbie Joined: Aug 24, 2012 16:59Messages: 6Offline
Solved byMay 01, 2014 06:04
please please please help me before I go mad. why can I not select multiple media clips in powerdirector 10 on my laptop? tab and arrows doesn't work (yet it does outside of powerdirector), nor does any combination of the right or left clicks and pad on the laptop built in "mouse". im pretty sure its worked before. and why does the remove and close gap only work intermittently?
craig
JL_JLSenior ContributorLocation: Arizona, USAJoined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01Messages: 6091Offline
May 01, 2014 09:08
If you are talking about multiple media clips in the timeline,
"Ctrl" LMB will add each selected clip
"Shift" LMB will select range, select initial clip, LMB, to final clip "Shift" LMB
cymroNewbie Joined: Aug 24, 2012 16:59Messages: 6Offline
May 01, 2014 11:28
yeah sorry, in the timeline i meant. but no, ctrl LMB or shift LMB dont work. any other suggestions? i know those buttons work fine outside of powerdirector.
JL_JLSenior ContributorLocation: Arizona, USAJoined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01Messages: 6091Offline
May 01, 2014 12:04
Since laptop, might be how you have the touchpad configured. Plug in usb mouse and see if issue persists. Those are the selection keys for PD, tab and arrows are not.
You need to know how your particular laptop touchpad works for left and right clicks. Point to the first item you want to select and then click and hold down left button whilst moving your pointer to the last item. This is the Windows standard block select action which works for items on the timeline as you would expect.
Hmmm.. I wasn't expecting that. I just switched my touchpad on and tried it and I agree it doesn't work. What did work for me was to click on the first item then hold down shift key while moving to the last item and clicking on that. What I can't seem to do is a CTRL + Click to select non contiguous items.
PD certainly doesn't implement input from the touchpad in a standard Windows manner as far as I can see.
cymroNewbie Joined: Aug 24, 2012 16:59Messages: 6Offline
May 02, 2014 17:18
I hate using this expression but OMG!! you cracked it. yeah it doesn't work if you want to link non contiguous clips but just knowing that I don't have to move each and every clip any more is a massive relief. really grateful to you. thanks! not sure why this isn't more obvious on PD, but at least I know the secret now.
I've got to backpedal again . I'll put it down to the fact that I don't normally use my touchpad at all
With no item selected at all and pointer off all items click and hold the left button and then move the pointer over the first item and along items to the last only then releasing the button -they're all selected now. This is of course the standard Windows behaviour.
nebxlousNewbie Joined: Mar 24, 2020 02:56Messages: 1Offline
Mar 24, 2020 02:59
QuoteIf you are talking about multiple media clips in the timeline,
"Ctrl" LMB will add each selected clip
"Shift" LMB will select range, select initial clip, LMB, to final clip "Shift" LMB
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