Compound clip length bug or feature?

[John Smith]

I don’t care what anyone says on this, you explain around it how you like, it’s a bug or lazy programming. Easiest work around I have found is to select the compound clip in the time-line and use Control+D and then enter a duration that exceeds the total length of the clips contained with in the compound clip. The compound clip now automatically adjusts to the exact length of the contained clips.

There is a bar that you can not drag inside the compound clip editor that divides where the clips have gone beyond the originally created compound length (greyed out). That should be adjustable, but it’s not. You should also be able to just drag the end of the compound clip in the time-line to extend it to the new length, but you can’t. This is simple and standard editing functions that just don’t work.

The above works if the compound clips contents have exceeded the original length, if the compound clip should be shorter as you have removed frames/clips from it then I do a similar thing as before. Control+D, then enter a duration below that of the clips within the compound clip (or probably easier drag the right-hand-side of the clip to the left in the time-line), then press control+D again and enter a value that exceeds the actual duration of the contained clips. You could of course just use the exact length required, but it’s often easier to do this than entering an exact number of seconds and frames. No chance of cropping anything off through lack of attention to detail.

Anyway, I assume this is the problem this post was about, this is the problem I was having, and this is a work around that I have fathomed that works best for me.

I guess you can probably do a similar thing by selecting multiple compound clips, so as to adjust them all in one go. Though I haven’t tried that yet.

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