I'm posting this again, in the hopes that repeated whines might get the company's attention.
By now I've kvetched plenty about inadvertently hitting my sync locks and bumping them off when I go to click on those tiny solo and mute buttons. I don't imagine those buttons are going away, or that Avid will provide the option of the good old speaker icon anytime soon. So, perhaps this brings up the issue of having a stronger graphical display for sync lock itself, which is actually something I could have used for years now.
Once upon a time, I never worked with sync lock, precisely because those tiny hatch marks next to the tracks weren't obvious enough for me to be aware of them the way I needed to be. I found many ways to stay in sync without it, such as by adding transitions to filler, enabling all tracks for extracts, etc. However, once I became an online editor and was working on big timelines for shows that were already in audio post, I started turning it on globally. That worked fine and prevented random errors, and I was mostly doing CC anyway.
But now that Avid has effectively halved the click real estate for track monitoring, sync lock has become truly treacherous. Yes, you'll get sync breaks if mess up dialogue relationships, but your narration can slide for a ways before you come aware that you've inadvertently bumped the damn sync lock off yet again. To FCP's credit, its dictatorial, no opt-out sync lock makes a kind of crude sense, and if you decide to break sync by locking tracks to prevent them from moving, the timeline display makes this plenty obvious.
So I propose to Avid, give me an interface option that will allow me to tell from the appearance of the body of the track itself that sync lock has been turned on for that track. It could be track color; for example, if your track is color X, it turns to a lighter shade of color X once the sync lock is on. It could be a texture, like in FCP, though I wouldn't want something quite that ugly and abusive to the eye. Just SOMETHING other than those teeny little marks at the edge of the track.
Best,
Shirley
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