I can't give you a reason for that behaviour but you could work around it by saving a copy of the original project under the name of the new one then editing out the bits you don't want.

I appreciate this may not be practicable if it's a complex project, though, so an alternative approach could be to produce the bit you want to copy to a file and then insert this on the new timeline. Regards,
Mike

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Quote I can't give you a reason for that behaviour but you could work around it by saving a copy of the original project under the name of the new one then editing out the bits you don't want.

I appreciate this may not be practicable if it's a complex project, though, so an alternative approach could be to produce the bit you want to copy to a file and then insert this on the new timeline.

Mike,
Thanks for your reply. As a Power director newbie I wrote here instead of raising the issue to support. I'm beginning to think that there is a bug. Apart from the missing beginning of the clip there is another issue.
I copy the piece of the track I want to move to another project. When I paste it into the new project the whole length of the track is pasted not just the piece of the track I wanted.
I copied the piece I wanted by moving the yellow sliders to the piece I want and selected copy.
Ian

Hi Ian,

Instead of using the yellow sliders try highlighting the set of clips you want by either holding down the left mouse button and dragging the marquee over them or by left-clicking on the first clip and Shift/left-clicking on the last. Then select Copy from the main menu bar. Regards,
Mike

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Quote Hi Ian,

Instead of using the yellow sliders try highlighting the set of clips you want by either holding down the left mouse button and dragging the marquee over them or by left-clicking on the first clip and Shift/left-clicking on the last. Then select Copy from the main menu bar.

Mike,
Okay I'll give that a try.
Ian

Quote Mike,
Okay I'll give that a try.
Ian

I think it would help to have a screen recording showing what you're trying to do and how PD is responding. I also can't tell what you mean by "track," as it seems to me that you're referring to a clip or clips placed on a track, but maybe I'm mistaken.

Also, you haven't mentioned which version of PD you're using, but if it's older than PD16, there won't be any patches forthcoming even if you've found a new bug. The best we can do is to try and come up with workarounds/alternate methods here, otherwise you might consider upgrading to PD18 or PD365.

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