Shortcut but you can just check keyboard settings to see what it is on the Undo the “Focus” zoom just Shift-F to toggle the focus I think is the default In the timeline may be a feature called “Auto Focus when entering Trim mode” and Places the cursor at the start of the shot so you can quickly review the start of Have to reposition your cursor for the next shot. In the source monitor and then insert or overwrite that to the timeline you don’t The timeline is to speed up your workflow if you are adding clips from the The reason why MC moves the cursor to the end of the clip in Playback for client monitor on the left and the bin’s monitor is on the right.
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My set up is similar to yours except I use Full screen I dfon't want the display to change when I add a clip that will fit in the visible timeline space, or to think for me and set a different zoom level. So all I want to achive is to get Avid to leave the timeline display where I set it, with the chosen zom level, and with the timeline cursor usually somewhere in the middle of the screen - at least when I'm laying a clip. Iv'e worked with this layout for years - if I have company in the edit suite, they are more interested in the timeline and TX monitor, and I don'rt have to navigate around them to get at the audio mixer and the VTR'sd which are also to the editors left. The three main mobvitors are the project and bin display to the left, the timeline in the middle, and the master TX monitor to the right.
I appreciate your oint about the ,konitors, though there are other factors in play here - my edity suite is designed and built with the audio mixer to the left, the Artist panels and keyboard/mouse in the centre (where the editor sits) and the assistants place to the right of that. Source Monitor to Composer editing? Yeah, You make thoughtful observations but I don’t think the user-characterizations of “complete and confusing pain” hold water. I almost never drag and drop clips - do you notice a difference in how timeline reacts vs. A and S keys have been mapped to Reduce and Enlarge for over 20 years and I use them constantly and without looking at keyboard. I did that when I first started on MC, but not because I had complaints about the way the timeline reacted to new clips.
Sounds like you may be a candidate for reversing those 27” monitors. I'd love to hear how other editors manage their timeline views or cope with this. I'm getting more used to the way Avid does this, but for new users it must be a complete and confusing pain to have their timeline zooming and shifting without their weanting it to do so.
I can understand why Avid zooms the timeline if I add a long clip, but if I have already selected a view that shows for example 30 seconds after the current clip/in point, and I add a single 6 second clip, I don't udnerstand why Avid both zooms and moves the cursor position. My suite has 2 x 27" LCD monitors at 1920x1080 resolution, with the timeline usually on the right hand monitor - if Avid moves the salient portion omf my work to the extreme right, then this is always at the screen position farthest from where I am sitting. I would be more comfortable with the timeline positioned so that I can see well beyond the end of what I have cut, with the cursor line in roughly in the centre. I don't understand why when dropping an edit or starting to play, the timeline automatically chooses another zoom level and almost always places the cursor at the extreme right of the timeline. Maybe I'm just no used to Avid yet, but after several hundred hours of cutting om MC, I still find myself using a lot of time to get the timeline view to match my needs.