Grouping events

After you've arranged your events so they're just where you want them, you can create groups to lock the events together. Once grouped, you may apply editing tasks to the entire group of events.

TIP When the Cut, copy, and delete grouped events checkbox on the Editing tab of the Preferences dialog is selected, cutting, copying, or deleting an event will affect all events in the same group. For more information, see Editing Tab

Creating a group of events

  1. Select the events you want to group together.

  2. From the Edit menu, choose Group, and choose Create New from the submenu (or press G).

NOTE When you add media to the timeline, the events for the audio and video stream are grouped automatically.

Adding an event to an existing group

  1. Right-click an event in the existing group, choose Group from the shortcut menu, and choose Select All from the submenu to select all of the members of the group.

  2. Press Ctrl and click the event to be added to the group.

  3. Right-click the event, choose Group from the shortcut menu, and choose Create New from the submenu.

NOTE Events can only be in one group at a time. Adding an event to an existing group essentially clears the old group and creates a new one that includes all of the selected events.

Removing an event from a group

Right-click the event you want to remove, choose Group from the shortcut menu, and choose Remove From from the submenu. The event is removed from the group.

Clearing a group

You can ungroup all events by clearing the entire group. Clearing a group does not remove events from your project.

Right-click one of the members of the group, choose Group, and choose Clear from the submenu.

Temporarily ignoring grouping

Select the Ignore Event Grouping button (or press Ctrl+Shift+U) to override event groups without removing the groups.

To move a single object of a group without moving the other group members:

  1. Click and hold the right mouse button.

  2. Click the left mouse button and drag the object to the new position.

  3. Release both mouse buttons.

    NOTE This works only with the Normal Edit Tool.

Cutting, copying, or deleting grouped events

  1. Select the events you want to cut or delete.

  2. From the Edit menu, choose Group, and choose Cut All, Copy All, or Delete All from the submenu. The selected events and any events that are grouped with the selected events are deleted or copied/cut to the clipboard.