Saturday, June 12, 2010

[Avid-L2] Re: Any MC5 Niggles?

--- Christopher Pitbladdo <avid@...> wrote:
> As I say, it's an awesome release, but I'm just wondering if anyone else
> has noticed this, or experienced any other little niggles relating to MC5.

A couple of oddities I noticed whilst playing with MC5:
- on Mac, if you want to move a track up or down but keep it at the same TC, you hold the CTRL key whilst moving it. In MC5, that gives you a right click menu... What's the new modifier?
- if you're in Trim mode in the SmartTool, the behavior of the yellow mode isn't consistent and you can throw the track out of sync even if you have locked the tracks together with the / button next to the track name. I'll have to play a bit more with that to give you an exact recipe to replicate this at home, but basically, sometimes the yellow trim in the timeline leaves a gap on the other tracks, sometimes it pushes them along with the one you're trimming, and sometimes it just trim the track you're working on.
- if you move an audio track from a two track clip, it won't tell you that they're no longer in sync, unless the V track is around. Oups, just realised that MC4 does the same.

Also, I miss the ability to tweak the interface to more precise colors than with the simple slider. And I would love to be able to have a different color for selected clips (yellow or red arrow) and the selection between the in and out points. Which was the case in the past - until v3 if I remember well.
Another improvement would be to be able to move a clip out of a stereo track, directly into 2 mono tracks - and vice versa if possible.

I have to say that appart from those littles things, it's an amazing release. The audio waveform is awesome. Worth the upgrade alone!


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