mark in/out doesn't work

[Daniel Keinath]

Hi!
I just updated my pyramix to v7 (using 7.16 Build 14296 native on win XP 32bit). So far everything works fine except of one little detail:
I can no longer select a range by dropping "mark in" and "mark out" points (I mean these red and green lines...)

Here is what happens when I try to do so: dropping one mark will always make the other one disappear. I can either have one green line or one red line at a time, but I can never have both lines at the same time... Everytime I drop the mark out point the mark in point will disappear (and vice versa) This makes some things a bit complicated as you can imagine...

It doesn't make a difference if I use a shortcut or if I select the commands from the menu. Even using the mouse (strg-click or shift-click) will cause the same problem.

Can anyone confirm this issue? Are there any workarounds? Or is there just a problem with my computer?

Thanks for your help!
Daniel

[phaseboy]

Hey Daniel,

I use the mark in/out all the time and have not experienced this - I'm using 7.17 14586 atm. I may have skipped over 7.16 though.

M

[johndsadams]

I'd maybe bump up to 7.17. That's what I'm using and there are no problems with the mark here.

-John

[Daniel Keinath]

Hi!

Thanks for your replies!
I've found the reason for this weird behavior! Since updating to v7.17 didn't make a difference I did some investigation on that particular project I've been working with and I found out that there is an option which I haven't known before. Apparently this option had been turned on accidently at some point. It is "Cursor and marks -> Lock Marks". Deselecting it solved the problem right away... good to know

Thanks again!

Daniel

[phaseboy]

The "Lock Marks" command doesn't actually remove marks - it locks the duration between them. You must have had a large selection between them which made it seem like the mark had disappeared when in fact it has just moved down the timeline.

eg: If you have the in mark at 1:00:00:00 and the out at 2:00:00:00 and you enable lock marks and you place the in mark at 1:00:10:00 - you will see the out will move to 02:00:10:00 keeping the one hour between them intact.

Best,

Mark

[Daniel Keinath]

got it... This is actually a handy feature. I will use it from now on! In my case the duration between the marks was 0:00 so that they were both at the same spot. Just the red AND the green arrow in the timeline could have given me a hint...

Thanks
DK