Inserting videos that have a shorter duration that the timeline

Hey Leslie, thanks for the reply and the helpful animation - that's great! That all makes sense, and matches what was working for me (but there's a "but").

It seems that the option for "Timing > Show until end of slide" is the same toggle (but different UI) as the "Show Until End" option. That's nice to know we can toggle this setting from multiple places.

So the process of changing the timing - if done right away - works. But... I'm finding that if I move the video object in the timeline (such as below other objects), its timing gets reset from the original video duration to the timeline's duration.

1. Add a shape, and set its timeline to be longer than a video that you insert.
2. Insert the video at the beginning. This appears above all other layers.
3. If you adjust the timing of the video now, it will work well and the video's timeline truncates properly.
4. But, if you move the video layer down below other layers, and then try to adjust the timing, the video's duration has been adjusted from its original runtime to a runtime that equals the current timeline's length.

This example matches #3. The duration is the video's original 6.18 seconds.

This example matches #4. The duration is now 18 seconds. This is the scenario that I've run into on projects of mine or of other clients, especially when there are several short videos on a single slide, strewn about the timeline, starting at different spots. Moving videos around, and then trying to truncate the excess time of the video's layer, doesn't seem to work.

I can see that a workaround might entail manually resetting a video's duration. But it would be convenient to not have to look ath up, and do that move.

Any other thoughts or suggestions? Thanks much!