Hi all! Due probably to a sunstroke in this Italian summer, I decided to try the 'Concatenate tracks' operation from the 'Tracks' menu.
Since I was not familiar with it, I read the manual: "Concatenate tracks is more complicated. It takes every playable track and concatenates it to the end of the first armed tracks. If there are two armed tracks followed by two playable tracks, the concatenate operation puts the two playable tracks after the two armed tracks. If there are three playable tracks instead, two tracks are put after the armed tracks and a third track is put on the end of the first armed track. The destination track wraps around until all the playable tracks are concatenated." It took me a *long* time to figure it out. (Please be surprised) ;-) I'm still quite perplexed. I wonder: - if I miss something - when I'm going to need this operation, in which context - if this operation actually affects tracks or rather assets (especially looking at its behaviour as insertion strategy) - if this is just a very particular kind of copy-and-paste operation - if this menu entry would be more appropriate in the Edit Menu - if the name 'Concatenate tracks' is misleading - if a plain 'Concatenate' could be a better name for this operation - if the Manual has been correctly modified So far I had never encountered in the Manual the concept of what I called 'set of tracks', meaning the group of tracks that contains an asset (e.g. one video track and two audio tracks for a standard camcorder clip, two audio tracks for a standard audio clip, eccetera eccetera...). I think it is quite a basic concept during any Load operation. ... or is all this just a sunstroke effect? :-) Ciao! Raffaella 7.6 Manipulating tracks http://cvs.cinelerra.org/docs/cinelerra_cv_manual_en.html#SEC108 Improving terminology http://cvs.cinelerra.org/docs/wiki/doku.php?id=improving_terminology _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
