Preference for "Active Window After Edit"

used to be the Canvas was the active window after you performed an edit.
it got changed it to the Timeline.

why should it be one or the other?
why cant we have a choice?

personally, there are many times when i'd like the VIEWER to remain active.


nick

> personally, there are many times when i'd like the VIEWER to remain active.

I'd vote for that -- when editing shots selects into a Sequence, for example. Should be a CONTROL-click option available for which window stays active.


www.derekmok.com

If you do an edit with the keyboard shortcut F9/10, etc the Timeline become the active window. If you drag to the Canvas Edit Overlay the Viewer remains the active window. To the best of my recollection the Canvas has never become the active window.

ah, good point.
to be precise i'm talking about an F9/F10 edit.
being able to have the Viewer remain active would increase speed when doing an assembly.


i think it was only a few versions ago that the canvas was the active window after an edit.
it used to drive me up the wall:
i'd do an edit and then want to zoom in, only to have the canvas blow up.


nick

Nick Meyers Wrote:
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> i'd do an edit and then want to zoom in, only to
> have the canvas blow up.
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I used to have this problem, but have remapped my keys so that ctrl arrow up = ZOOM IN ON TIMELINE as apposed to a simple ZOOM IN TOOL. Using this when any window is selected will always zoom-in on the sequence timeline

>Preference for "Active Window After Edit"

Yes please. Could be as simple as a button in the viewer & canvas windows that you can use to "lock" the focus to that window (after edit). However they implemented it, it would be welcome.

> i'd do an edit and then want to zoom in, only to have the canvas blow up.

I mainly use OPTION +- now. That only zooms the timeline. I haven't blown up the Canvas or Viewer accidentally for years -- though I'm betting everybody's gone through that before!


www.derekmok.com

derekmok Wrote:
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> I mainly use OPTION +- now. That only zooms the
> timeline....

This is my primary way of zooming in on the timeline also.

What nags me about it is that it doesn't focus on the playhead. If I'm zooming in on the timeline, why wouldn't I be trying to get a closer look at my playhead position? (And yes, I know it's a simple matter of moving 1 frame in order to re-focus on the timeline)

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> jdredline Wrote:
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> What nags me about it is that it doesn't focus on
> the playhead. If I'm zooming in on the timeline,
> why wouldn't I be trying to get a closer look at
> my playhead position? (And yes, I know it's a
> simple matter of moving 1 frame in order to
> re-focus on the timeline)

There is a zoom command that will zoom in on the playhead in the timeline. I have it remapped to Apple/Command + on my keyboard.

JK