copying and pasting a sequence

[Al Marotta]

Hi,
I know this must be basic but I can't find the answer in the wonderful pdf instruction book. I've edited a segment with a number of picture clips AND, most importantly, with sound clips and title clips beneath them on the timeline. Could someone tell me if it's possible to move this segment all together at one time to a different part of my project? I have VSP pro 10.

Thank you,
Al Marotta

[lata]

Hi Al
It is possible but may be a little unpredictable depending on the clips positions, not something i have attempted.

First I would save the project to give you a copy should things go wrong
You can use Shift + Click to select each clip to be moved
Resize the timelines, zoom out so you can see the drop point
You can now drag that selection along the timelines to its new position
You may be best to add a chapter marker on the timeline to indicate the new drop position

What happens when you drop the files really depends on the content of the timeline at that point.
The program may add a colour clip in black.
If it looks wrong simply hit the Undo or open the project again without saving will revert to the original, and try again

[Al Marotta]

Thanks Trevor for your help. It looks like I'm S.O.L (S...t out of luck). I thought this would be a basic move in any program and while I'll try your suggestions, it looks like I''ll have to realign the overtrack and title and sound track by eye again.
Al

[tletter]

it's possible to move this segment all together at one time to a different part of my project?

Not if you're using ripple editing and want to avoid breaking alignment after the point that you drop the copied section (unless you're dropping at the end of the timeline).

Corel programs: 1

This profile question is asking for the name/version of your Corel programs not the number of them.

tletter
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[Al Marotta]

Thank you tletter for responding. I think I may have solved the problem by exporting to a usb the segment I want to move. When you do this, a clip shows up in your library pane with the segment you want. You can't adjust underlying sounds and titles, but I got what I want. If there is a simpler way to do it that enables you to edit things once you've moved the segment, please let me know. There is a way to move at least blocks of clips, as we all know, but I got nowhere selecting sound and titles--they wouldn't select.

I get what you are saying in the profile---I didn't realize it only listed the number 1. I'll see if I can figure out how to change it.

Al

[tletter]

When you do this, a clip shows up in your library pane with the segment you want. You can't adjust underlying sounds and title

If you want to move a large segment of a VSP that contains all of the tracks, e.g. video, voice, music, title, etc., then you can divide your original VSP into sub-VSPs and add them into the Library and then recreate a new with the sub-VSPs added back into a new VSP in the order that you want. This works fine but it's only worthwhile if your want to move a large segment of a VSP.

tletter
https://www.youtube.com/user/tletter

[Al Marotta]

Thank you tletter for your responding.
I do not get the procedure that you are describing. How do you divide a VSP into a sub-vsp? What is a sub-vsp?
Thanks,
Al

[tletter]

How do you divide a VSP into a sub-vsp?

You highlight and delete parts of a VSP, leaving behind a sub-VSP which you save under a new name - repeat as required to get what you want.

tletter
https://www.youtube.com/user/tletter

[lata]

Al
I don’t understand why you could not select all your clips using Shift + Click
Even so dragging the selection would require Ripple Editing to be used.
Yes you could create a new project of the selected files by deleting the rest but to delete parts of the project you would have to use Ripple Editing to keep the rest of the clips in sync.

The other option would be to render that part to a new video file by setting the Project Range
Then you could insert that video anywhere in the project, and back to the first problem of removing the old clips.
If you can do that then there is no reason why you cannot simply drag the selected clips along the timeline to reposition them.
It all depends on the arrangement of your clips on the timeline as to weather you can retain the order correctly, and we cannot see that arrangement, so we are sort of guessing as the best approach.

[Al Marotta]

Hi Trevor,
Thanks for the good words. I confess I never thought of control click to select titles, picture and sound. The problem might be close to being solved. Are you saying that if I use ripple editing, and select titles and sound, I can drag the VIDEO clip to a new position on the timeline and the audio and title segments will move along with it? Would it be possible to just copy the selected segment and move the entire thing all together, no dragging?
Al

[tletter]

but to delete parts of the project you would have to use Ripple Editing to keep the rest of the clips in sync.

The approach is to always delete/add VSPs segments from the end of the VSP, that way ripple editing is not an issue.

tletter
https://www.youtube.com/user/tletter

[lata]

Hi tletter
I understand what you are saying
If the target clips are in the middle of the project which I believe they are then creating a separate project would mean removing clips from the end and beginning of the project, the latter would need ripple editing.
No problem if ripple editing works with the clip configurations.

There is no problem to use Shift + Click to select the clips on all tracks.

Then if we simply delete the selection, does ripple editing retain the sync for the remaining upstream clips.
If yes then we are half way there, Hit Undo and the clip selection is back on the timelines, now we should be able to drag and drop knowing that Ripple Editing will do the job, Drop the selection further down and ripple editing should work for the rest of the upstream clips

A few ways to do this but It all depends on the timeline clip configurations and we cannot see that.

There is another option to render the clips using the Preview Range to create a single new video, drop that anywhere on the timeline
Then we have to delete the selected clips

we can Group clips, unfortunately groups only seem to work on individual tracks not over several tracks

[Al Marotta]

Thank you, Trevor. I'll try to digest what you are saying and experiment with it.

Thanks,

Al