Usually, when selecting a group of clips, one could drag it around. Now the selection instantly goes away when clicking and dragging anywhere in the selection. So, I thought, let's just put all these clips in a group and drag them around like that. Unfortunately, all my clips are little groups of video and corresponding audio clips, and when I removed the grouping of all the clips together, this sub-group was not preserved, so I was left with a mess of clips that were supposed to be little groups. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Group a selection of groups on the timeline 2.Un-group the group Actual Results: the origianal groupings were destroyed by the overall group Expected Results: Groupings to be preserved through infinite levels of grouping.
Noticed the automatic unselection after a drag too ... this is really hindering my work flow. Hopefully, Jean-Baptiste can restore the previous behavior where selected clips got selected even after the mouse release from a mouse drag.
Git commit 5218c4fb900bf085b3bd0b7256a4d6184f01b5d8 by Jean-Baptiste Mardelle. Committed on 14/06/2016 at 20:53. Pushed by mardelle into branch 'master'. Fix selection lost after move M +3 -3 src/timeline/customtrackview.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kdenlive/5218c4fb900bf085b3bd0b7256a4d6184f01b5d8
Thanks for fixing the selection going away on a drag. However, sub-groups are still not preserved. In an application like Inkscape, you can group groups, and when ungrouping, the original groupings are preserved. This would be a good thing to have in Kdenlive.
Created attachment 99685 [details] showing grouping destroys sub-grouping Here is a clip showing that sub-grouping is destroyed.
Hey JB, just added an example clip of sub-groups not being preserved through a grouping and ungrouping. This is a pretty serious bug, as suddenly there is more than twice the amount of work that needs to be done on a timeline. The groupings _must_ stay intact, or to put it differently, kdenlive has to support multiple levels of grouping smoothly. I think I still have an open bug on not being able to apply a single effect to a group of clips. In my mind, when clips are grouped, they should act as one "virtual" clip. Then, when un-grouped, all the previous groupings must be preserved, as nested grouping is a feature of most other drawing packages.
Still an issue for me, as of 2016-08-09 This makes the grouping functionality much less useful. Grouping is supposed to make your life easier, not harder.
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This seems fixed in the refactoring branch as od 2018-09-27 Thanks for the hard work, JB!