Here's a puzzle. A short time ago I downloaded the upgrade to VV3.0 (build 138). I have used the new version with no apparent problems until now.
Today, I was creating a text title, and inadvertently moved the Text creation window from its central location on the screen down into the docking window area along with the Media Pool and Trimmer and Explorer. Of course, that abbreviated a lot of the window's contents and I didn't want it there, but no matter what I did I could not undock the text titling window and return it to its original center screen position.
While fooling around with this, I de-selected all of the items in the View menu, thinking I might be able to re-establish the order and position of all the dockable windows.
Much to my surprise, when I opened various elements to view, the text titling window was still in the undesireable docked position with its own tab, but now the video preview window and the audio mixer were tabs and only one or the other could be selected for viewing at one time, but never both as before.
I went through each and every line of all the preference and options windows I could find, but there was no reference to dockable windows at all, nor to positioning the text window or the monitor and mixer windows.
I consulted the manual and on-line Help, but could only find a vague reference to being ABLE to make the monitor and mixer into tabs. However, there was no procedure for undocking any of the dockable windows, other than grabbing the "handle" and simply moving it to another position on the screen. Believe me, I tried every way I could to find and grab any handle, but all of the handles now seem inactivated. Even the main time window in the upper left corner has no grabbable handle!
I went through every keyboard key looking for a "magic button" to allow me to move the text window back where it belongs and to "un-tab" the preview and mixer windows, but to no avail.
After a couple hours of this, I finally decided to reload the program from scratch, which I did, though I chose the "Repair" mode rather than the "uninstall" mode. But the problem persisted.
I asked a friend of mine with the same build 138 if he had a solution. At my request, he de-selected all of the items in the View menu, and when he re-selected the preview monitor and mixer, they both came up tabbed, and now he can't un-do them either!
We've tried everything we can think of to solve the problem so this is my last resort short of uninstalling the entire program and starting over with the original build.
Any thoughts anyone...?
Matt Simek
Pacific Standard Television
Today, I was creating a text title, and inadvertently moved the Text creation window from its central location on the screen down into the docking window area along with the Media Pool and Trimmer and Explorer. Of course, that abbreviated a lot of the window's contents and I didn't want it there, but no matter what I did I could not undock the text titling window and return it to its original center screen position.
While fooling around with this, I de-selected all of the items in the View menu, thinking I might be able to re-establish the order and position of all the dockable windows.
Much to my surprise, when I opened various elements to view, the text titling window was still in the undesireable docked position with its own tab, but now the video preview window and the audio mixer were tabs and only one or the other could be selected for viewing at one time, but never both as before.
I went through each and every line of all the preference and options windows I could find, but there was no reference to dockable windows at all, nor to positioning the text window or the monitor and mixer windows.
I consulted the manual and on-line Help, but could only find a vague reference to being ABLE to make the monitor and mixer into tabs. However, there was no procedure for undocking any of the dockable windows, other than grabbing the "handle" and simply moving it to another position on the screen. Believe me, I tried every way I could to find and grab any handle, but all of the handles now seem inactivated. Even the main time window in the upper left corner has no grabbable handle!
I went through every keyboard key looking for a "magic button" to allow me to move the text window back where it belongs and to "un-tab" the preview and mixer windows, but to no avail.
After a couple hours of this, I finally decided to reload the program from scratch, which I did, though I chose the "Repair" mode rather than the "uninstall" mode. But the problem persisted.
I asked a friend of mine with the same build 138 if he had a solution. At my request, he de-selected all of the items in the View menu, and when he re-selected the preview monitor and mixer, they both came up tabbed, and now he can't un-do them either!
We've tried everything we can think of to solve the problem so this is my last resort short of uninstalling the entire program and starting over with the original build.
Any thoughts anyone...?
Matt Simek
Pacific Standard Television