Select Everything to the Right or Left

Spike109

VideoPad v13.80

I am working on a project with three video tracks and an audio track. I need to insert a short video clip into one of the tracks. But when I insert that clip, I need all the other tracks to shift all together to make sure everything stays in sync. In the past, I would maybe do a Select All, then unselect the components that do not need to shift, group all the remaining components, and then shift what I needed to the left or right to keep things aligned. But doing that in this situation would be too tedious.

I would like to be able to do something like this. Select one or more components in the various tracks, then choose an option or an operation to select everything to the right (or left). Then, I could Group all those components and move/shift/align everything in the Group.

Is there some way or a better way to do what I am trying to do?

Thanks.

borate

Standard Windows procedures may be of help.

<Ctrl-click> to select individual files. <Shift-click> to select a range... by clicking the first file, then holding down <shift> and clicking the last.

Then right-click on a selected file and GROUP SELECTED CLIPS.

Spike109

Thanks, borate! This answered my question and solved my problem. Interesting, though. I used the <Shift-click> operation to select a range of clips/files and the behavior I saw in VideoPad was a little unexpected.

I clicked on the first clip/file in the range. Then I pressed the Shift button and the timeline view of my clips immediately jumped to the position of the red timeline cursor. I could scroll the timeline, but if I scrolled the cursor off the screen, the timeline jumped right back to where the cursor was so the cursor was visible on the screen. Basically, I could not scroll away from the cursor.

Now that I see how it works, it is not a problem. In fact, there are some circumstances where this behavior is helpful. In my case, I wanted to select everything to the very end of all the clips/files. So I positioned the cursor at the end of the timeline. Then I selected the clip/file where I wanted to start the selection of the range. When I pressed the Shift key, the timeline jumped to where the cursor was (which was at the very end of the timeline). Then, with the Shift key still pressed, I just clicked on the last clip in the timeline and I got the range of clips selected just like I intended.

That works for me.

Thanks again.

borate

Doesn't sound quite right. The cursor here doesn't jump. Try the latest release.

For one-time licensed users upgrades are free for up to six months from purchase date. After that, VP will continue to fully function but a fee is required in order to register the newest. Retain your old install file and registration info. If there's an issue, you can always revert.