Add a feature for grouping (pseudo-merging) clips in the timeline.

[Jayden58]

The feature would let you merge clips together into one larger clip for ease of use was my original idea. But after being told to think of alternatives in the bug report outline, I believe I've thought of a better solution; grouping clips. You can select multiple clips and group them together, and the resulting group can be manipulated as if it was one clip. You can also ungroup groups, which separates them into their individual clips.

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I would like the OpenShot developers to add a function to group clips together so they can be moved about like one clip (also if you did CTRL+LeftClick it would also behave like one clip.)

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Alternatives solutions I've thought of

• Crt+LeftClick all of the clips
  Pros: It works. || If you don't like how the clip works you can remove it
  Cons: it looks more messy reducing clarity || if you have a bunch of small clips it can be confusing || It is very slow ||

• Adding Merge feature
  Pros: Improves clarity || improves simplicity
  cons: Could be technologically complex and could(I'm not a coder) include, but it not limited to:
  = Recoding or modifying how clip IDs work
  = Automatically adjusting start and stop times of effects and properties of each clip
  = Recoding or modifying how clips are made and adjusted
  A protentional workaround for the merge idea is to render the selected clips into a video file, but that would come with the problem of rendering speed slowing down the workflow.

• Clip grouping
  Pros: behaves like clip merging without extra effort || is not permanent so you can group and ungroup clips|| would only need to code moving clips the same amount simultaneously (and could make a work around by just moving each one in order very fast)||
  Notices (things to keep in mind, not suggestions): If you were to add an effect to a grouped clip, you can either have it affect the entire group or only work on a single clip. || You could add a button to render that specific grouped clip and turn it into a video.

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[Colorjet3]

Hello @Jayden58 Thank you for this submission. I added this to the backlog queue for the lead developer to review. I have linked that ticket in the queue to this thread. If you or anyone else comes up with other ideas feel free to add to this thread.

[Jayden58]

If you made it so it worked with clips in other tracks, then if you were to put an image on the track above a clip and group them, then they would not desync when you use the "remove all gaps" button