Old 11-05-2018, 10:09 AM   #1
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HI

I'm a newbie to Reaper and been a user of Vegas for nearly 15 odd years.

Vegas has some issues now with VST plgins so thought it was time for a change.

I am now about 90% there, being able to do what I could do with Vegas.

There 2 things I most miss in Vegas and not being able to find the setting in Reaper and I am sure its there, its just a language thing where Vegas describe the action different to Reaper.

I have done a short Vegas video. Showing what I'm missing.

https://youtu.be/RntTYDdxX_E

1. When I select an edge to edit to move it I would like to automatically select the item.

2. when I trim the edge of the Item, I would like everything to right to move to the original item edge position.

The video might make it clearer what I like to achieve.

Many thanks.

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Old 11-05-2018, 10:45 AM   #2
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Youtube video does not load. At least for me.

But I can tell you its not possible to select an item by clicking the edge. You can take a look at preferences/mouse modifier/item edge -> left click. There are several actions in the list but nothing that would select the item. Have no idea if there is another way to achieve this.

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Old 11-05-2018, 10:46 AM   #3
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Let me check, I may have the wrong settings

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Old 11-05-2018, 10:51 AM   #4
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Ok I think I have fixed the link issue.

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Old 11-05-2018, 11:09 AM   #5
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Yes, it works now.

But I'm not sure the things you want are already possible in Reaper. A lot of things can be done with actions. Maybe its possible to achieve at least the select item at the edge.
The second case reminds me of ripple editing. If turned on you can move items and everything after it moves with it. But again, I'm not sure if there is a way to get similar effect by trimming an item.
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Old 11-05-2018, 11:15 AM   #6
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Thanks for looking.

I have ripple on but when i trim an item edge everything stays in the same place.

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Old 11-06-2018, 12:26 AM   #7
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Unluckily enough for you, Ripple Edit doesn't work with any item edge drag action.
It's simply not implemented in Mouse Modifiers > media item edge > left drag.
(although would be amazing if it would be implemented, i can see the benefit of how it works in Vegas).

But.. i am pretty sure you can create a Custom Action for what you are doing at 0.05 in the video and a Custom Action for what you are doing at 0.15.
I just have to figure out these 2 Custom Actions in my head

The benefit of these Custom Actions would be that you don't have to mouse drag at all, (mouse dragging is cumbersome, too timeconsuming!!), you just left mouseclick at the position on an item where you normally dragged the item edge to and then execute Custom Action with a keyshortcut: fast workflow !

EDIT:
So here is the first Custom Action, for what you do at 0.5 in your vid.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/04vv537q1u...perKeyMap?dl=0

- Import this Action into your Reaper Action List and assign a shortcut to it.
Howto:
Leftmouse click on the position of an Item where you would normally drag the right edge of the item to.
Execute the Custom Action
Presto !

EDIT2:
Here is the second Custom Action i made, based on what you do at .15 in your vid:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oww0a1k9ub...perKeyMap?dl=0

- Import this Action into your Reaper Action List and assign a shortcut to it.
Howto:
Leftmouse click on the position of an Item where you would normally drag the right edge of the item to.
Execute the Custom Action
Presto !
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Old 11-06-2018, 08:04 AM   #8
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Thank you.

Great job, some good solutions. Thanks for taking the time to put them together.

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