How to join two clips so they become one in the timeline?

[YetAnotherLR]

Apologies if this is a very banal question, but I'm a complete newbie.

How do I join / merge two clips so they appear as one in the timeline?

What I mean is this: let's say that I have 2 clips and I want to show them one after the other.
I drag clip1 onto the videotimeline, then drag clip2 onto the same timeline, just to the right of clip1.

This way, when clip1 ends, clip2 starts.

Now let's say that I have resized clip1 so that it doesn't take the whole screen but only a part of it, let's say the top left part of the screen only.
Once clip2 starts, it will start occupying the full screen.
But I want clip2 to occupy the same space as clip1.

If clip2 and clip1 were one clip instead of 2, I assume I wouldn't have this problem.

Or is there a better way?

If I select both clips, I do not see an option to join / merge them.

There are tutorials on how to merge videos, which talk about transitions but don't address what I need: https://learn.corel.com/tutorials/how-t ... deostudio/

[asik1]

A -put the two on an overlay track, resize 1 and copy it's tribute to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th... n'th.
B- save your 2 clips as vsp > load your vsp as single file ti TL > resize.

[lata]

If we insert the two clips to the timeline, we can then go to Share where we have options to render the project to a single file.
What we choose would generally depend on the properties of the original video files.
Top left for Same as Project Settings, change option to "same as first video clip", assuming those options are available.

However the rendering process is usually left as a final finish to our project

You inserted the two clips and resized the first, you now need to resize the second clip so they both play in the same area of the preview screen.
The program has an option to copy the first clips edits and paste to other clips.

After resizing clip 1, right click Clip 1 on timeline for Copy Attributes
Right Click clip 2 for Past All Attributes

Play the clips in Project playback

[YetAnotherLR]

Thank you for the answer on copying attributes!

Just so I'm clear, you can trim a clip and make it into 2, but you cannot do the reverse and combine 2 clips into 1?

[lata]

Thank you for the answer on copying attributes!

Just so I'm clear, you can trim a clip and make it into 2, but you cannot do the reverse and combine 2 clips into 1?

You can cut / split a clip to make into 2 clips.
The only way to combine those clips is to render to a new clip using the Share options.
Why would you need to create a new clip out of 1 and 2? When they playback in project mode as one.

[YetAnotherLR]

Why would you need to create a new clip out of 1 and 2? When they playback in project mode as one.

so as not to have to paste all the attributes. I get it that pasting attributes works a treat, mine was just curiosity.

[lata]

Copy and Paste attributes would be quicker than renderring 2 clips into one, replace clips 1 & 2 then apply the edit.
Besides renderring into one clip would then need renderring again, we try to avoid multiple renders as each would affect quality, if we can render once