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here are a few commands I cannot find yet. Can you assist?


Extend selection to end of clip

Extend selection to start of clip

select from cursor to end of clip

select from cursor to beginning of clip



thanks in advance!

ML

Well, today I created my first macros to achieve the first two commands above. I'm very proud of myself!

Now, here's a poser: If I "ctrl-C" a clip I want onto my clipboard, then select a 'bad' clip I want to replace with my good clip, and go "ctrl-V", my good clip plugs right in there, but the bad clip is still there too-- it just moved over to the end of my new edit! How to get the bad clip to truly be replaced?

One user was sure it is because I have had 'auto ripple' turned on, but this problem happens whether 'auto ripple' is enabled or not.

thanks, once again, in advance!

ML

Ah! I'll go figure out which one I should use. Thanks!

M

That's interesting. On my installation (none of the following modified). ctrl-alt-v is paste and ripple. ctrl-v is paste to cursor.

I wonder if it might makes things easier if we all refer to actions by their name and not keystroke... there does seem to be a lot of inconsistency.

BTW - I think that what Mark is in effect doing is replacing a section of music with the same thing (that happens to be slightly shorter). With a paste function this would leave a little left over at the end. The solution I have come up with to get around this is to (once you already have what you want on the clipboard) select the region to be replaced and put the cursor at the start of that selection. Then use the replace selection command, followed by paste at cursor - with auto ripple enabled. This can easily be put into a macro, and I believe would do what Mark is looking for.

Using both in and out gates you can also accomplish this with source/destination editing.

Best,

Mark

Mark-

I will try that as a macro.

For today, the solution I found was using the Placement tool-- setup as follows:

insert mode : "Replace"/ 'align Head'/ 'ripple'

Your suggested macro looks good-- I struggled with "replace selection" today and was dismayed that it seemed to do nothing more than delete the selection, replacing it with nothing. If I follow it with 'paste at cursor', though, I may have what I need.

While looking for a solution to this problem today, I was wandering for a while in an odd never-never land where a 'paste' type command would often create a situation where the pasted material would play simultaneously with the 'replaced' area. The track, in this case, would turn kinda 'grey'.

How did I get to this?

Phew!

ML

Mark, I use the middle button on my mouse to accomplish quite easily all of these commands:

Extend selection to end of clip
Extend selection to start of clip
select from cursor to end of clip
select from cursor to beginning of clip

For example, to select from the cursor to the start or end of a clip, simply click w/the middle mouse button the part you want selected and it will select btwn the cursor and the end or start of the clip.

To extend selection I have been holding down the shift key and then clicking the middle mouse button on the unselected part of the clip.

Hope this helps,
Steve

Steve-

A dream come true! Absolutely a big help! I can hardly wait to try this trick!

ML

Ahhh...I use a trackball, and don't have a middle button.

Steve-

That does not work for me as I have my middle button set up. I will gladly set it up as you have yours, though- just tell me what it's currently set to on your PC.

In case you don't know how to do that (you probably do know), go to the control panel, click mouse, click buttons. There is probably a drop-down menu that will allow you to set your center wheel to any number of functions.

Really looking forward to the solution to this problem. It's benn annoying me for weeks! None of the macros I have work perfectly all the time yet...

ML

Mark,

My mouse is not configured in any special way, and in the control panel there is no way for me to assign the middle button to anything. But....this is a Logitech USB wheel mouse, and I'm using the scroll wheel as the middle button to click to do the selecting I described earlier. It just worked this way from the day I set the computer up. I'm also on Windows XP Pro and using 4.1RC3, but I'm sure it has worked this way for me since at least beta 13. Sorry I wish I knew what to tell you, I hope you can get this functionality soon!

Good luck,
-Steve

Thanks, Steve-

Per your PM, I'll be contacting Nicolas @ Merging. At least now I know that the move is possible!!

does anyone else besides Steve use this move?

ML