PowerDirector "Basic Editing"

This is the script for video "Basic Editing".  It describes in detail how to edit videos with Cyberlink PowerDirector Version 20.

This video will show the steps for basic editing with PD. Please watch the preceding videos in this playlist before this one, and make sure you're initialized the settings described in video "Initialize Settings".
Editng is NOT a simple task, You should watch this video several times, maybe watch in sections. Open both this video and powerdirector on your desktop. Play and pause the video, while you repeat editing steps on one of your videos in PD. If you have 2 monitors, show this video on one, and open PD on the other. 

To open powerdirector, double click the pd icon or a saved project file. You can also open PD by dragging a saved project file, or one or more video , audio , or image files onto the icon. After powerdirector is open, you can import additional files by dragging them onto the PD media room, or directly to the timeline.  Files in he media room are dragged onto the timeline to edit them.
As you get familiar with PowerDirector, you will use ALL these editing steps. You might want to print the script for this video from webpage "powerdirector" , and keep it as a reference.

Editing tips:


To use the preview window, check the boxes at the left end of the timeline to show or hide each video track. The preview window shows the video when you play it, and shows a snapshot of the current position when the video is paused. The numbers give the playback position from the start of the selection on the timeline, in hours, minutes, seconds, and frame within the last second -- at 30 fps, 1 frame = 1/30 sec) . If nothing is selected, the numbers give the position from the start the timeline. Use the numbers as a guide when splitting.
To play or pause the video, click this button, This will also deselect all clips on the timeline.
Pressing the space bar on the keyboard also pauses and plays the video.
The pointer shows the playback position. 
drag the pointer to move across the selected clip (or across the entire timeline if nothing is selected.
click the left and right arrows to move the position one frame, you can click here to select how far the arrows move the position, but I recommand you use frames.
press alt-up arrow or alt-down arrow keys to move the position 1 second
click the double arrow to fast forward the video,
click the square to move the playback position to the beginning of the selected clip on the timeline. If nothing is selected, the square moves the position to the beginning of the timeline.

The pointer at the top of the timeline shows the playback position, and the red playback line shows the position on all timeline tracks.
Click within a clip to select it. Or drag over clips to selet them. Use control-click to select additional clips. Selected clips can be deleted, copied or moved by dragging, or pressing control-x, control-c, or control-v. Warning: the control keys may work erratically -- better to drag selections.
To move the position,
drag the pointer,
click on the scale,
click on another clip or video on the timeline. This will select the clip and move the playback position to the beginning of the selection.

To edit each part of the video, move the playback position to the beginning and end of that part, then click the split icon to split the video into clips.
To locate the exact split points, play and listen to the video, use the audio waveform in the timeline, and the video display in the preview window to locate the split point.
If you use the audio waveform to split the video, expand the timeline display to show individual words by clicking the + or dragging the dot at the bottom. Also, to prevent the file name from hiding the waveform, rename each file after you drag it to the timeline. Right click the file, select "Edit clip" - "Change alias". Use single digit numbers 1,2,3,etc so you can identify which clip is from which file you're editing.
Click the split icon to split the video at the playback position. If the playback line crosses a selected clip, only that clip is split, and the part to the right of the split is selected.
If the playback line does not cross a selected clip, all videos crossed by the line are split.

Make a trial split. Play and listen to check. If it's off, add another split. When you're done, select the area between the correct splits to delete or rearrange your video. To remove unwanted spits, drag or use control-click to select clips on both sides of the split, then right-click the selection and select "combine". Or you can just ignore the bad splits while editing.
Click an empty area on the timeline, or Play the video to deselect all videos.
To delete the selected clip, press the delete key. If there's anything to the right of the clip, Choose from these options: remove and leave gap, remove and fill gap, remove fill gap and move all clips.
To move a clip, drag it. If it overlaps a video, you then select from these options: overwrite, insert, insert and move all clips
If you can't click on a blank space and delete it, right-click it and select one of the remove clip options. If that fails, drag the video to close the gap.