Simple Questions

[Michael Hancock]

[Chris Baker] “1. On my old system I could zoom in and out of the timeline using the up and down arrow keys. They don’t work like this anymore and I don’t see anything in the help section or any of the tools. Very annoying for navigation purposes.”

Choose Menu to Button Reassignment in the Command Palette. Click the Up/Down arrow on your Keyboard settings, then go to the fast menu of your timeline and choose More Detail/Less Detail. That will map Zoom In To Timeline and Zoom Out of Timeline to your Up/Down arrows.

[Chris Baker] “2. Previous and Next edit buttons automatically open the trim tool. I find this annoying for speedy navigation. I used to do this all the time and then be able to hit plus or minus x frames to go to a specific location in the clip. Now if I do this I accidently trim the clip. I know its only an extra key stroke but still.”

Map Rewind and Fast Forward to these. Then they’ll function like before.

[Chris Baker] “3. Adjusting individual track heights. Now it seems I just have Command k and l to expand or contract the track sizes, I find this odd especially with Avid.”

Hold Ctrl (on a PC – not sure on a Mac) and grab the bottom of the track – pull it down or up to make the track larger or smaller. Note, your mouse pointer doesn’t change like it used to but the function is still the same.

[Chris Baker] “4. Wave form was there then disappeared. I’m sure this is a setting or something but I can’t seem to get it back. Kinda need it for editing a music piece.”

Make sure you don’t have “Show Marked Waveforms” turned on in your Timeline settings. Also, check you timeline fast menu to see if you have Waveforms turned on via track basis. If so, click the little arrow in the upper left of your timeline and turn on waveforms for your individual tracks.

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Michael Hancock
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[Ricky Barrow]

Sounds like user settings/keyboard mapping and workspace/toolset configuration issues.

Ricky

[Chris Baker]

Michael, those were a huge help! Now to get editing.

Not really a keyboard issue. Most everything was the same except the cut tool and the trim tool which I mapped to their respective locations like on my old Avid keyboard.

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[Chris Baker]

Again Michael a huge help but one last question;

The lift and cut buttons (z and x respectively) only give me a “ding” sound and nothing happens but using the delete key works. Strange considering that when I open up the keyboard they are there.

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[Michael Hancock]

I get random dings too – I thought it was my keyboard acting up. Try clicking a couple bins, the source monitor, than the record monitor/timeline and try the lift/extract shortcuts again. See if it works.

I’ve found that clicking a bin or two or deselecting whatever is highlighted in a bin seems to snap Avid out of this behavior.

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Michael Hancock
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