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J Riley Hill · 12-18-2023, 11:04 PM

I'm using the workflow of recording with "comping" on and only the comp lane visible. Mostly I'm using keyboard shortcuts with a handful of the provided actions. For the most part it works like a dream!!

Using this workflow, I'm noticing, a little quirk with these two actions that makes them a bit hard to use:
Fixed lane comp area: Move comp area down for selected items. 42708
Fixed lane comp area: Move comp area up for selected items. 4270

I can select different items with comping on and if I trigger those actions from a keyboard shortcut it will toggle through the available items under that area. Even creating a new comp area if needed. (which is great!) But if there starts to be lanes that don't have any content in them in that space it will cycle in "nothing" into the comp area and the shortcut will no longer work. This makes sense (as their is no item being selected anymore)but it results in the actions feeling like you get "stuck" at times.

I notice that currently when you click on the arrows for "change fixed lane comp area" with the mouse it ignores any empty lanes. If it's possible for the aforementioned actions to have the same behaviour (of not switching in space from empty lanes) it would make them more reliable/useful for a mouseless workflow!!

12-18-2023, 11:04 PM
J Riley Hill Human being with feelings Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 155	I'm using the workflow of recording with "comping" on and only the comp lane visible. Mostly I'm using keyboard shortcuts with a handful of the provided actions. For the most part it works like a dream!! Using this workflow, I'm noticing, a little quirk with these two actions that makes them a bit hard to use: Fixed lane comp area: Move comp area down for selected items. 42708 Fixed lane comp area: Move comp area up for selected items. 4270 I can select different items with comping on and if I trigger those actions from a keyboard shortcut it will toggle through the available items under that area. Even creating a new comp area if needed. (which is great!) But if there starts to be lanes that don't have any content in them in that space it will cycle in "nothing" into the comp area and the shortcut will no longer work. This makes sense (as their is no item being selected anymore)but it results in the actions feeling like you get "stuck" at times. I notice that currently when you click on the arrows for "change fixed lane comp area" with the mouse it ignores any empty lanes. If it's possible for the aforementioned actions to have the same behaviour (of not switching in space from empty lanes) it would make them more reliable/useful for a mouseless workflow!!