grouped clips shifting around

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letiiimp

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May 11, 2019 21:04

Once we finish editing a particular segment of our video, we often use the ´group clips´option to ensure that they remain together while attend to other parts of the project.

When we return to the grouped clips after some time, we find that they remain grouped (as they should),however, while clips on one same track maintain their assigned position, relative to one another, they do not remain in place (within the group) relative to the clips in the below or above tracks.

As a result we lose the desired flow, timing and synchronisation of the entire fragment and we keep having to ´ungroup´ the fragment, time it and rearrange it to then ´group´ it once again.

If anyone knows a way around this problem, it would be enormously helpful for us. thank you.

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

May 11, 2019 22:05

Quote Once we finish editing a particular segment of our video, we often use the ´group clips´option to ensure that they remain together while attend to other parts of the project.

When we return to the grouped clips after some time, we find that they remain grouped (as they should),however, while clips on one same track maintain their assigned position, relative to one another, they do not remain in place (within the group) relative to the clips in the below or above tracks.

As a result we lose the desired flow, timing and synchronisation of the entire fragment and we keep having to ´ungroup´ the fragment, time it and rearrange it to then ´group´ it once again.

If anyone knows a way around this problem, it would be enormously helpful for us. thank you.

The only way to prevent tracks moving clips around is to lock the track with the lock icon on the Left side of the track, you have to lock the track for every clip in your group.

As far as I know, grouping just keeps the selected clips together, it does not prevent the clips in the group moving relative to each other.

Grouping is another way selecting a bunch of clips in the project. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.