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Old 02-08-2011, 07:58 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by ivansc View Post
just finding it difficult to adjust to what seems to me to be a click and menu intensive way of doing what should be a neasy task.
undersandable, getting to know reapers slightly different approach can throw you - as i see it they (cockos) were of the opinion at least until recently, that key presses beat mouse fiddling and 'tools' for speed. that is balancing out now though so we have every choice.

currently in v3 the 'usual' method involves one extra key press compared to PT:

'click drag start point to end point' (create time selection)
hit the key for 'split at time selection'
then move.

compared to:
click drag start point to end point
then move, for PT

also with the 'split item under mouse cursor' action bound to a key
you can:
mouseplace + 'hit key'
mouseplace + 'hit key'.
then move.
which arguably in practice is prob quicker than creating a time selection but is a 2 hander.

however fear not - in v4 you can set it up to work exactly as PT, i.e 'select, then move' as you describe with the wonders of mouse modifiers.


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