2011/1/29 Herman Robak <[email protected]> > On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:17:03 +0100, flavio <[email protected]> wrote: > > Still on the functionality issue, one thing that may or may not be easy to >> do, but would help a lot is to create shortcuts to toggle between the >> "copy >> and paste" and "drag and drop" editing modes. >> > > How about [Shift]? It would make even more sense if Drag-n-Drop was > the default mode. Pressing [Shift] to drag-select is an old, established > and _expected_ convention, after all. > > Could be something like it - but Shift is used to select the tracks while you drag the cursor over them. But something such as Ctrl+Tab I think is not used for anything. Also, since Shift+Tab is used for arming/disarming many tracks at once, it would be physically close to it.
> > Every now and then, when I use "dn'd", only the video is draggedand the >> audio just stays there, so I do most of my editing using "cn'p". >> > > That's bugworthy. Having a "lock" between a group of tracks, like the > audio and the video, has been mentioned and requested before. IMHO, > audio tracks should be locked to the video at import time. Staying in > synch is the expected. > Yeah, agreed. To lock them would be nice, if you have a way of unlocking it if needed (even though that can be acomplished by only importing the audio or something). > > However, there will be exceptions and dilemmas: What if a "locked" > audio track is not "armed"? Cinelerra would have to show the user > that there is a conflict, and give a hint about the solution, in a > _very_ clear and obvious way. If it could automatically give priority to what you're trying to do would be amazing. For example, you're trying to drag a video with locked audio somewhere. The default behaviour could be automatically unlocking those audio track (only if they're locked to the video) but issuing a warning like "hey, tracks 2 and 3 were locked! temporarily unlocking..." (or something) so that you knew they were locked and thought if you really want to be doing what you're trying to do. That warning could be diabled in the preferences once you get used to it (or, to the danger!!!)... Of course, those are ideas, I don't know if they can be implemented or how hard it would be to implement them... But it's nice to be discussing this. I could raise my hand as to join the testers team, if that can help! cheers, flavio
