Ability to group/nest clips so you can manipulate multiple clips as single clip

[greytexture]

Currently, if I have 17 clips and I want to rescale them and add blur and color correction effects, I have to apply them to one of the clips and then copy them to others. Or you simple join them, export them and then import again as single clip. Then use effects.

The problem with this approach is, it makes things complex instead of simple. Adding, removing, adjusting the effects on multiple clips is not so convenient.

Further, suppose you want to scale up by 80% some of clips, some by 60% and some by 90%. Then lastly, if you want to scale all of them up or down overall in final preview, it will make things tedious and repetitive scaling effects may be needed. It's just an example where things get complex.

Most of the video editors solve this issue by grouping/nesting funcionality. Where you can simple group multiple clips and it shows as one clip. Then you can manipulate it however you want, as a single clip.

One of the reasons I think the developers haven't implemented this is that they want to keep the video editor simple. However, this is my honest opinion, it actually makes it complex for many users who work with multiple clips and effects. Many users have actually asked about this before. I'm sure I'm not alone.

Implementing this feature will actually make it simpler for users. It's one of those features that will help justify the "simple yet powerful" moto more realistic.

I really hope developers consider this feature and implement in near future.

[Kr9ilf3b]

if it helps you, you can hold down ctrl + left click to select multiple clips. after that, you can adjust properties, and in most cases, the changes you make will distribute to all the clips (unless there is something wrong with the clips' runtimes lining up. the devs are working on newer versions and you can see some improvements in how openshot is handling multiple clip properties already)

putting multiple clips as its own group that you can keep reusing after you deselect it is a good suggestion though, i like it

[greytexture]

Grouping will also help where you don't have to select multiple clips again and again when you want to make changes or improve/try more things on several things. Reducing editing time.

[Colorjet3]

Another option is to leverage the "Parent" attribute. For example,

1. Drag two emojis onto a track. The emojis do NOT have to be on the same track.
2. Select the 2nd emoji, right click to display the Properties.
3. Find the Parent attribute, Right click in the Value field, click on Clips, and select the first emoji.
4. Now, anytime you make certain type of changes to the first emoji Clip (Scale, location, shear, etc.), these changes apply to the other clip. You can have as many clips pointing back to the first clip.

Note: Not every change works so experiment. I know that adding an Effect and/or Transition does not work with Parenting.

I still think there are advantages to "Grouping", however, it needs to be clearly defines as to what can be done with it as it can cause issues as well.

I just checked and I see an enhancement entry already in the Backlog queue. I will make a reference back to this posting and further clarify the description of the Enhancement request.