Show entire video button GONE

504roadtrips

Newbie Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Joined: Apr 11, 2017 20:48 Messages: 17 Offline

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Jul 11, 2018 21:55

I've been using Powerdirector 15 for over a year now, and my old laptop finally started giving me so much trouble that I bought a new one with a modern i7 CPU and Nvidia graphics. I reinstalled PowerDirector, got everything all set up the way I like it, and in the process of editing videos, I notice that there used to be a toolbar button near the Magic Tools and "Split the Selected Clip" buttons that allowed you to quickly zoom out and show the entire video across the time line. You can right click on the timeline and select "Show Entire Movie" and it does the same thing, but I"m really missing having that button to do that quickly. Other than this everything works fine and better than it ever did on the old laptop.

I don't know if there's a setting that customizes that toolbar that I may have changed a year ago when I first started using the software...if there is, I don't remember how to do it and can't find anything that gives any options on that.

I tried doing a complete uninstall and reinstall and the button is still missing.

Any suggestions? 504 Road Trips
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JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Jul 11, 2018 22:04

Just a screen size resolution item. With nothing in the timeline, place the cursor in video track 1 near the left edge, the cursor will transition to a double left and right arrow cursor, when it does, click and drag to the right. You'll probablly also see some track labels exposed that you might never have known existed.

Jeff

504roadtrips

Newbie Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Joined: Apr 11, 2017 20:48 Messages: 17 Offline

Jul 11, 2018 23:12

Quote Just a screen size resolution item. With nothing in the timeline, place the cursor in video track 1 near the left edge, the cursor will transition to a double left and right arrow cursor, when it does, click and drag to the right. You'll probablly also see some track labels exposed that you might never have known existed.

Jeff

WOW! That's exactly what it was. When I set it up on the new computer, I slid the little slider just to where I could just see the little padlock icons because I occasionally use them, and since it gets into where the "show entire video" button is, it just disappeared instead of cutting off the edge. I was certain that it was on the same toolbar with the Magic Tools, etc. so I didn't even think to look there.

Thank you so much! 504 Road Trips
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