I filed this as a bug report and found out it was a feature, so I am bringing it up here.
In 2.4 when you add a video clip it pops back from the file screen to the strip screen with the clip attached to the mouse and then you move the mouse to the right place with a popup massage telling you your current location and then click to put it down. This system has always worked well for me. Perhaps others had problems with this? I do not know. The new system takes the location of the mouse at the time of clicking the add menu or shift A (which ends up being at about frame 40 to 50 in most cases) and puts the clip there. The idea being to position the mouse on the correct place and press shift-A so that you end up on the right spot. There are problems with this. First a newbie will not know this, I thought it was a bug. Second you have no way to know what frame the mouse is on, so you can only get close if the screen magnification is bad. Third, if you use the menus you have no way to control where the cursor is at. You can also say where to put the clip in the file dialog (something I missed before I was told, who would think it would be there?) but this is bad work flow. I think we should go back to the 2.4 way. -- Douglas E Knapp Creative Commons Film Group, Helping people make open source movies with open source software! http://douglas.bespin.org/CommonsFilmGroup/phpBB3/index.php Massagen Arbeit in Gelsenkirchen Buer http://douglas.bespin.org/tcm/ztab1.htm Please link to me and trade links with me! Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project. http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page http://code.google.com/p/perspectiveproject/ _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
