How to Order Clips in Timeline by Alias

Voluntaryism623

Newbie Location: Toronto Joined: Jul 05, 2014 19:39 Messages: 10 Offline

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Jul 05, 2014 19:57

Hey forum, new user here.

After spending 3 days doing rough cuts for a YouTube video in PowerDirector, I labeled the 500+ cuts with aliases to group them and find the best of each group. I have each labeled already, but they need to be sorted. How do you sort all of the clips in the timeline by their name in the alias? I've searched a lot of the forum here and could not find the answer.

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Voluntaryism623

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Jul 05, 2014 20:43

Please type something if you see this. Does this forum work?

BarryTheCrab

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Jul 05, 2014 21:54

If you already have your media in the timeline, there is no sorting function. The library contents can be sorted.
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Voluntaryism623

Newbie Location: Toronto Joined: Jul 05, 2014 19:39 Messages: 10 Offline

Jul 05, 2014 22:20

Thanks for the welcome. Sad to say this is how the next 3 hours will look: manually grouping and alphabetizing 350 clips.

Is there any way to eliminate spaces/gaps between all clips in the timeline?

John_K

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Aug 30, 2014 01:49

Hey Vol, did ever get an answer about the "remove multiple 'Gaps' at one time" aspect of your problem?

I am editing by cropping a few seconds off of dozens of game film clips - football and baseball. Each edit requires that I manually remove the gap and move all of the clips on the timeline - over and over and over. The frustrating thing is that version 9 of powerdirector removed the gap automatically. I cannot select the gaps in batch and remove and move. There is no setting that I can find.

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Aug 30, 2014 13:08

John _K The frustrating thing Is that version 9 of the gap powerdirector removed automatically.
This statement does not seem correct. gaps are removed after individual selections, click right button and REMOVE AND CLOSE SPACE. W 10 64 , pc Dell XPS 8000 - core i7 2,8 GHz--ram 6 MB--GEFORCE GTX 1050TI 4GB - SSD 256 + 2x630--area Pal
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LynnM45

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Sep 30, 2016 21:23

How do you group clips?

The Shadowman

Senior Contributor Location: UK Joined: Dec 15, 2014 13:06 Messages: 1831 Offline

Oct 01, 2016 07:21

Hi Lynn

Please start a new thread and explain exactly what you mean by "How do you group clips"

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