This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] [FR] Four requests after seeing the goodies added in v8.1

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] [FR] Four requests after seeing the goodies added in v8.1

I just want the ability to change the background color of the PROJECT window. This used to be possible. Now you can only change the color of bin backgrounds. The project window is a very unique and important window, yet with a lot of windows open, it looks almost exactly the same as an ordinary bin. But if you close an ordinary bin by accident, it pops right back up. But close a PROJECT window and you know what happens. Please do something to make this window LOOK more unique or let ME make it look unique.

On Aug 23, 2014, at 6:32 PM, Benjamin Hershleder Ben@ContactBen.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

To:
Avid-L2
and
the magical Avid Engineers that lurk the "L2"

Cc:
Bryan C.
Christie C.

Four requests after seeing the goodies added in v8.1

I'm begging now . . .
Please, oh please, oh please. Oh! pleee-aaa-ssse!

I can't be the only one with these wishes, hopes, dreams, and desires . . .

1.
AutoKeyframing Toggle
Example: http://i.imgur.com/3WQMscy.jpg
Direct Manipulation in Effect Mode is great,
but not when it adds keyframes when I don't want it to (e.g. Scale that's not meant to animate).

2.
A Bin Container Window -- similar to SuperBin -- My vote goes to calling it BinRangler© (I'm only half kidding).
Allow the user to enable/disable this feature, which would make it possible to single-click on the bin icon (or maybe an Opt/Alt Single Click) and that would open the bin and place it into the Bin Container Window (which would be a "Tool" so that it could be locked in a specific location as part of a Workspace (a.k.a. Toolset). The Bin Container would behave like a tabbed set does now.

3.
Paint and AniMatte promoted to Advanced Keyframes.
And when a shape is added, it would get its own keyframe track.
Plus, the ability to hold Shift to make a circle or a square.

4.
Please return the interface customizability circa v3 or v4 (and any more customizability
that anyone can dream-up, including Font size and typeface customizability throughout).
You may not think it matters . . . but it really does.
Just today a young editor (switching from FCP) commented that they liked the customizability in v7.
Then I told him about v4 and previous, and he drooled.
Personally, I miss:
- Timeline Bkgd Color (I used to make mine black, which is much easier on the eyes during a long day of cutting).
- Ability to color Filler (helpful when you have many tracks).
- Custom I/O highlight/s (Would be helpful differentiating between an I/O highlight and a Segment Mode selection highlight).

Thank you. Danke. Grazie. Merci. Gracias. ありがとう.

I now return you to your regular programming.

Cheers,

Benjamin
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