I agree. Eventually if chaining add and move operators cause problem using the cursor position (current frame) is still a a better solution than the mouse position.
2010/6/23 Knapp <[email protected]>: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
