I love Avid. I do. But I don't want Avid thinking for me to that extent. If I don't have certain tracks selected then I don't have them selected for a reason, so please, Media Composer, don't change what I'm doing!
That said, I'll check on the whole linked selection thing, but I do have to say that when it does this thing(adding tracks and jumping around), it isn't just going to the next place where a bunch of stuff is lined up on the same cut. Sometimes it's adding six or seven tracks with cuts in those tracks that are only roughly in the neighborhood, and not straight vertical. I repeat, maddening. I want to trim the tracks I have selected — not the tracks MC thinks I want. I mean, really, that's just bizarre.
On Nov 5, 2015, at 12:23 PM, Steve Hullfish Steve@veralith.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:Brilliant advice. It's possible that if you have linked selection on, it's jumping to the next or previous time that ALL of your selected video tracks have a vertically exact edit point…. You're expecting Avid to jump to the next transition, but Avid is thinking "He wants me to jump to the next transition where ALL of these tracks edit at the exact same time, which could easily be at the very beginning or end of the sequence
On Nov 5, 2015, at 1:30 PM, RRF Avid rrfavid@hotsprocketfilms.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:Not sure if this is your issue, but try turning Linked Selection off. You can turn it off temporarily with the option key when you want to go into trim mode.
- RichOn Nov 5, 2015, at 2:11 PM, David Dodson davidadodson@sbcglobal.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:This is good advice, Steve, and I may try to modify my behavior in this regard. That said, it still doesn't explain the MC's behavior, which is something I'd really like to understand.On Nov 5, 2015, at 11:00 AM, Steve Hullfish Steve@veralith.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:I never use A and S to go in to trim mode on the next or previous edits.
If you want to go to an edit point without going in to trim, then use FFWD and REW buttons. I have them mapped to my TAB and SHIFT TAB key.For going IN to trim, either use the trim mode button or lasso. Or simply select the exact transition/edit points and go into trim mode with the MODE button.For getting OUT of trim mode, just mouse click on the timecode track or use the Source/Record editing button.That's my way of doing it… may not work for everyone. But in 25 years, I've never used the A or S key.SteveOn Nov 5, 2015, at 12:51 PM, David Dodson davidadodson@sbcglobal.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:I work a ton in Trim Mode. As such, there's a behavior in MC that drives me up the wall. I'm sure I have some setting enabled (or dis-enabled) that is causing this, but I can't find it anywhere, and look to the L-2 for help.Often I'll have only the tracks I want to trim selected. Then I hit either 'A' or 'S' (depending which direction on the timeline the desired cut is) to enter Trim Mode. But then, completely unwanted, MC will add a bunch of tracks I did NOT have previously selected to the total tracks now engaged in Trim Mode. Maddening. This has the effect of often sending me to some other place in the Timeline far from where I'm working.That or it's nearby, and I have to go through and deselect the tracks I don't want. What am I overlooking here? It's part of the same frustration I have when exiting Trim Mode only to have MC throw me all the way back to the beginning of the entire sequence. Why not just be able to exit Trim Mode and stay where I'm working?Do I have something awry in my Settings? Or is this just common, workaday MC behavior?Thanks,DD
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