This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Three Feature Requests: Locators, Audio Monitoring, and Project Window

Friday, October 25, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] Three Feature Requests: Locators, Audio Monitoring, and Project Window

The part I don't understand is, what was wrong with the old buttons?
For that matter, what was wrong with the term "locator"? Or, the
Weightlifter? If Avid has a scarcity of development resources, why do
they waste them on things that don't improve the product? --J.B.

Shirley Gutierrez wrote:
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> I don't know of a keyboard shortcut that works for all tracks. I
> checked the help docs, and apparently, Option/Alt plus Track # toggles
> audio on and off for A1-A4, which is better than nothing. It's
> effectively a toggle mute, though, not a toggle solo.
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> Best,
> Shirley
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy <roy_axis@yahoo.com>
> To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Fri, Oct 25, 2013 4:01 am
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Three Feature Requests: Locators, Audio
> Monitoring, and Project Window
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> Yes Shirley
> I totally agree with you Regarding the Audio Monitoring
> I Feel I'm working slow now with this Tiny Solo/Mute button - its
> crazy all the time to go there with the mouse and select or deselect
> I don't see any reason why they have changed that from the good old
> monitor way On/off
> it doesn't make sense to me to always use the mouse.
> is there anything i miss here so i can use maybe a KB to solve this ???
> thanks
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> On 25/10/2013 01:22, Shirley Gutierrez wrote:
>> These ground breaking innovations would make my life majorly easier
>> right now. The first two involve going back to the way things were,
>> say in Version 4. If any of these things have already landed in MC 7
>> (about which I know nothing), apologies in advance!
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>> 1) A Locator window that works (I will never, ever call them
>> markers): Why, oh why, can't I see the full text field in the tool
>> window? Back in the day, the window was split, and there was a text
>> display box down below. I miss that, but I don't see why the text
>> field itself can't be expanded. I think it's pathetic that I can only
>> see most of the text in the Composer Window, and in some cases, only
>> when I open the locator pop-up itself. And why not bring back the old
>> Avid name? There's no need to imitate FCP this slavishly. Have some
>> corporate pride, people!
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>> 2) Audio monitoring: another contemptible, Version 5, FCP like
>> "innovation." There's a toasty place in hell for the designer that
>> decided to make two tiny buttons perform the function that one decent
>> sized button used to perform quite capably. This change is all pain.
>> Give me the option of getting the old singular button back, or at the
>> very least give me keyboard shortcuts for mute and solo for all 24
>> available tracks.
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>> 3) A 21st Century Project Window: There are very few things I miss
>> from FCP 7 when I transition back to Avid, but the more flexible
>> Browser window really is something I long for on a daily basis. I
>> don't see why I can't open an organizational folder into it's own
>> window. I often work within multi-user projects where each editor has
>> their own workspace folder, and creating new bins that fall down to
>> the bottom of a huge list of folders is a major pain in the keister.
>> I want the Project to work like your basic desktop, the only thing
>> that makes sense to me.
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>> There. Better now. Thanks for listening.
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>> Best,
>> Shirley
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