Clip Lock

[Rmarq]

I want to lock my clips to a specific point in the timeline.
Click on a lock symbol and the clip cannot be moved, adjusted, deleted or changed.

Please.

It is so very not good when I notice my clips have shifted on me, 20 undo/redos before. Of course this is always do to somthing stupid I have done, which I am very good at.:foreheads

[Kurt_Henning]

This is a great idea, and other users have suggested it as well.

Your best bet is to copy your post, make another plea, and send it to

features AT newtek DOT com, I believe. If not, you could try sending your idea to Dr Cross or John Perkins at Newtek Engineering, but I think the proper channel is through the "features" e-mail. I do not believe that you get a reply, so you might want to sent two to be safe.

I agree with the point that this is a missing part of the editor, but they are aware of it, and are likely trying to address it. This subject has been broached, but as the products progress, there is nothing wrong with revisiting things that editors still want in their toolboxes.

I hope you are referring to SE VT, because I do not think they would go back and make it work in TED for VT4. I only see it in SE, if we see the feature materialize. I am an optimist, I hope they add it. We shall see,

[CreatvGnius]

I want to lock my clips to a specific point in the timeline.
Click on a lock symbol and the clip cannot be moved, adjusted, deleted or changed.

Please.

It is so very not good when I notice my clips have shifted on me, 20 undo/redos before. Of course this is always do to somthing stupid I have done, which I am very good at.:foreheads

Ryan? I'd like to suggest that while your idea is a most desirable function, I have at times created PROJECT MARKERS for indicating where some clips need to "stay" - just in case I haphazardly (sp?) knock something out of whack -- I'll then have a reference point indicating something like: "VoiceOver Audio Starts Here"; "zenith of Talent's raised hand is here", etc.,

I might do this in areas on the timeline in which I'm performing some really tedious layering, since moving clips around (even hitting CTRL+A for "Selecting All" then moving clips around) has no effect at all on those PROJECT MARKERS (created at the position of the EDIT LINE, with the CTRL+M shortcut when no clips are SELECTED).

Should I find something's gone awry, I've got some reference points for visually checking alignment of clips relative to the project time.

HERE'S ONE BETTER:
I've frequently created CLIP MARKERS vertically stacked among a range of clips from top to the bottom "track", indicating where each track ought to line up relative to each other (hit CTRL+M with the clip selected. a mark will appear on that clip, where the EDIT LINE happens to be).

Add to that, a single PROJECT MARKER, with labeling which indicates what track starts there (e.g., Music Intro here), then you've got enough marker cues to align the project with respect to time *and* amongst the various vertically-stacked clips).

Lame, compared to what you're asking for, but for me, it helps. :hey:
-PeterG

[CreatvGnius]

Ryan? I'd like to suggest that while your idea is a most desirable function, I have at times created PROJECT MARKERS for indicating where some clips need to "stay" - just in case I haphazardly (sp?) knock something out of whack -- I'll then have a reference point indicating something like: "VoiceOver Audio Starts Here"; "zenith of Talent's raised hand is here", etc.,

I might do this in areas on the timeline in which I'm performing some really tedious layering, since moving clips around (even hitting CTRL+A for "Selecting All" then moving clips around) has no effect at all on those PROJECT MARKERS (created at the position of the EDIT LINE, with the CTRL+M shortcut when no clips are SELECTED).

Should I find something's gone awry, I've got some reference points for visually checking alignment of clips relative to the project time.

HERE'S ONE BETTER:
I've frequently created CLIP MARKERS vertically stacked among a range of clips from top to the bottom "track", indicating where each track ought to line up relative to each other (hit CTRL+M with the clip selected. a mark will appear on that clip, where the EDIT LINE happens to be).

Add to that, a single PROJECT MARKER, with labeling which indicates what track starts there (e.g., Music Intro here), then you've got enough marker cues to align the project with respect to time *and* amongst the various vertically-stacked clips).

Lame, compared to what you're asking for, but for me, it helps. :hey:
-PeterG

FEATURE REQUEST:
Could we have an add MARKER function which, when deployed, places a vertical dotted line (or some such thing) across and on top of everything the EDIT LINE is intersecting (clips, timeline blank area, etc.)?

Not sure what you might call it, as it would probably be a new convention in NLEs. ("Project-Clip Marker"?)
(Now, wouldn't it be cool if that line could "hold in place" as it were, every element it intersected)?
Huh? Nudge, nudge; Wink, wink; Know what I mean? :D
-PeterG