Editing problem

[Johnrb7]

First, a big salute to the creators, I LOVE this software!. One problem that I found when using the new beta is this: during editing, when applying the "generate silence" function to a line of a track, the operation succeeds, but the view immediately jumps to the max zoom out, and I have to re-zoom to continue editing. Annoying when manually editing silences at regular intervals. Hopefully this will not be a huge prob to remedy. Looking forward to more of this great product.
JB

[kozikowski]

Yes, that makes me crazy, too. The Shortcut that helps here is Control (Apple)-E to take you back into the silence and Control (Apple)-3 to zoom out slightly, more or less where you started.

That's far faster than select-zooming back to where you think you were.

Koz

[Johnrb7]

Thanks for the tip Koz. I tried it, but still very cumbersome and slow when you are doing some 100+edits on a long voice track. For the moment, am using 1.3.5 for the "generate silence" and then switching to 1.3.7 to get the new features. Works well enough, and saves my sanity!
JB

[kozikowski]

Wait. 1.3.5 doesn't zoom out full and 1.3.7 does?

Koz

[Johnrb7]

1.3.5 does not zoom out, it stays at the same zoom setting. So, to be clear, when I edit at close-up range to generate silence for a highlighted section, 1.3.5 remains at the same view, allowing one to simply highlight the next bit one wants to edit, no problem. But 1.3.7 immediately sets itself back to max zoom out, requiring one to manually reset the zoom to get back to the view one needs for editing. Try it out and you will see what I mean.

JB

[kozikowski]

<<<Try it out and you will see what I mean.>>>

That would be rough to do since you posted in a section of the forum where I can't tell the type of computer you're working on.

Koz

[kozikowski]

One other note. If you insert silence and the silence is bigger than the viewing window, what happens then -- on both versions.

Koz

[Johnrb7]

Hi Koz


Interesting point you raised. Unlike 1.3.7 the 1.3.5 version does not automatically reset its zoom perspective following an edit, it stays put, regardless of whether you generate silence of a short length (well within the viewing window) or a long one (say, five times the viewing window). It behaves very stable. But 1.3.7 only behaves itself for this function when the whole length of track is contained within the viewing window. Once the track(s) require scrolling then the problem arises. FYI I am using (mostly) my Acer laptop running XP SP3, have not tested on Linux or Apple at this point.

JB

[dtkerns]

I can concur this same behavior on Intel Mac OSX 10.4.11.

my work-a-round is not via hotkeys, but mouse clicks ... "fit selection" (because even though the view has gone to "fit project" the area selected, still is) followed by "zoom out"