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

Jeff

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.

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.

Jeff

as I don't have a mouse does that mean that there's no way I can select multiple media clips in powerdirector?

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.

when I do that it either moves the clip i've highlighted or does nothing. of course outside of powerdirector what you suggested works fine.

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.

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.

took me a while to work it out and a few fails, but youre right that too works. cheers.

Quote 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

Jeff

how can I do that in the mobile app??

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how can I do that in the mobile app??

Please start a new thread in the PD Mobile forum.

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