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OK, I’m fresh off CS3 and jumped to CS5. The Mercury playback is awesome but I’m more than a little aggrivated by some changes which didn’t seem to be a problem in the first place. One of the biggest issues I immediately ran into is the fact that I can’t navigate from edit point to edit point using the page up and down keys unless each track is highlighted. This then creates a problem trying to paste a clip onto the right track. So I have to de-select each track I don’t want the clip to paste to then select each track afterward so I can toggle between edit points again. I thought that maybe I could use the “assign source” indicator to tell it which track to paste the clip to but that doesn’t seem to work. Am I missing something here?
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If you highlight/focus the Program Window and hit page up/down it will stop at every edit point regardless which track in highlighted or not.
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Thanks Ann, I did not know that. It is still a pain though. Trying drop in video to the correct track, trim and sync to music or other video clips was WAY quicker when I could simply page up/down to the correct edit point in the corresponding tracks and paste on the CTI position. Even using the CTI as the “snap to” edit point is now much harder. This is a big step backward IMO. Still scratching my head over the need to change this feature….
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you toggle SNAPPING on the fly with the S key. (i think)
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Yes its different to CS3, in fact we all had to get used to it in CS4 when it was first introduced for more accurate 3 & 4 point editing in the timeline.
There are some little things that aren’t obvious about the track active workflow. You can de/activate all video tracks by holding shift while selecting a track name. Same for audio. When no tracks are active copy and paste work as expected where paste lands on the dame track as it came from.
Having specific active tracks means there is control over trim and extend edit points to CTI. This is such an amazing feature once you get used to it within a track based editing workfflow. Transitions move with the edit points and overlay tracks are unaffected.
Keep playing with the tracks active and deactivate states and you won’t remember CS3 being faster.
Good luck. – JB
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Thanks Jon, that will help.
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