Hitch cursor to playhead, while playing ? -ACID Product Family

Subject:Hitch cursor to playhead, while playing ? Posted by: Douglas Clark Date:11/14/2007 12:22:32 AM Is there a way to get the cursor to follow the playhead, without stopping and starting play again? This would also be handy while recording, if I click on the timeline to look at something, but then want to get back to following the recording, with autoscroll etc.
Subject:RE: Hitch cursor to playhead, while playing ? Reply by: Chienworks Date:11/14/2007 3:55:27 AM Press the backslash \ key.
Subject:RE: Hitch cursor to playhead, while playing ? Reply by: Douglas Clark Date:11/14/2007 4:41:59 AM Thanks Kelly. It is assigned to the "½" key on my Danish keyboard (\ is an "AltGr" shifted key). Actually, it centers the moving playhead in the window, but it doesn't move the selection cursor. I'd really like to have the selection cursor move to the current playhead position. I guess "Pause" (return key) is the only way to do this....but I can't pause in the middle of a recording.
Subject:RE: Hitch cursor to playhead, while playing ? Reply by: pwppch Date:11/14/2007 3:42:02 PM >>I'd really like to have the selection cursor move to the current playhead position. Why? Peter
Subject:RE: Hitch cursor to playhead, while playing ? Reply by: Douglas Clark Date:11/14/2007 5:10:51 PM Actually, it's while recording (and I've mostly experienced this in Vegas), if I click on the timeline, the waveform display no longer follows the recording. I just want to get back to following the recording cursor. Is the backslash key going to do that?
Subject:RE: Hitch cursor to playhead, while playing ? Reply by: Chienworks Date:11/14/2007 7:38:09 PM Peter asked my question for me. I couldn't think of any reason why that would be useful. I don't think you can select while recording. In response to your question i'm tempted to say, "try it and see", since that would take you only about 1/10 as long as it took to type the question. ;) But i'll tell you .... yes.
Subject:RE: Hitch cursor to playhead, while playing ? Reply by: Douglas Clark Date:11/15/2007 12:07:43 AM You're right Kelly. It was just that this question came up in the middle of a long recording session where I couldn't risk playing around...just had to keep hands off and hope the recording that had scrolled off-screen was OK. It was. And now I just tried various actions while recording. It is OK to scroll, go to start and end, click on the time line and zoom in. It is OK to make a time selection, but if the active playhead is not on-screen, making a time selection causes the focus to return to the record-head position, as if backslash was pressed. It is also OK to make a time selection (loop region) even if doing punch-in recording. The recording follows the original time selection status at the time record was started. The new selection is ignored by the record-head. So now I'm more confident when recording is running. Thanks for your help, Kelly and Peter.
Subject:RE: Hitch cursor to playhead, while playing ? Reply by: pwppch Date:11/15/2007 11:00:32 AM We pretty much limit what you can do when recording. Editing and any significant changes can be a real problem during record. The most important part of recording is to record. Everything else must be a VERY low priority as you don't want to mis recording the best take of the day. Peter

Subject:Hitch cursor to playhead, while playing ?

Date:11/14/2007 12:22:32 AM

Is there a way to get the cursor to follow the playhead, without stopping and starting play again? This would also be handy while recording, if I click on the timeline to look at something, but then want to get back to following the recording, with autoscroll etc.