Thanks! Indeed this tip is useful, because it removes the more recently added hazard of the stupidly small s/m buttons. But I can still click off a sync lock just by slipping when enable and de-enable tracks. Any place you put the sync locks, so long as they are next to stuff you use all the time, they are vulnerable to be clicked. Sometimes I think they should be at the other end of the timeline.
With all the customizations that Avid has as far as interface appearance, I should think they would be able to add something that alerts you to the sync state of your tracks, much as they once added the in-to-out highlight.
Shirley
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From: electropura212 <electropura212@gmail.com>
To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu, Apr 11, 2013 9:10 am
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Feature Request - a sync lock you can actually see
If you keep the Track Control Panel open (click the triangle to the right
of the timecode display) there is greater space between the sync locks and
the mute/solo buttons. The loss of real estate is not great, unless you
are on a tiny monitor. But if they moved the locks to the left of the
Record side track buttons (so they end up between the source and record),
it would help.
As far as a visual cue, I would not like to see the clips in the track
change, but would not mind if the track button's color changed when sync
locks are engaged (hopefully not flashing red).
On Thursday, April 11, 2013, Shirley Gutierrez wrote:
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> 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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