feature request: soloed tracks.

busterkeaton wrote on 10/1/2004, 2:36 AM
When you go to render your project, if you have only selected certain tracks to render, you should get a message saying. You have chosen not to render all tracks, is this correct? YES NO

If you don't like this, you can turn it off in preferences.



PS. I also like the one that people bring up every so often of having a visual inidicator if the audio is out of sync.

Comments

farss wrote on 10/1/2004, 6:06 AM
You do get a visual indication that certain tracks are off.
Given that you can solo / mute bothe audio and video tracks and it's visually obvious I cannot quite see why it'd be that necessary.
Also the LESS messages the better.
I use the Multirender script and ANY warning messages cause it to stop. OK, you could turn it off in preferences you're suggesting but there's already more things in there than I care to have to worry about and I can think of many things I'd like to have warnings about before I'd worry about this one, at least it has no knock on affects, how about a warning if you try to edit video with Quantize to Frames OFF?

Bob.
rmack350 wrote on 10/1/2004, 8:35 AM
There are a an awful lot of things that could be in preferences. If they actually were there then you'd need something other than a tabbed prefs interface. Probably something more compact like the interface to TweakUI-categories on the left and settings on the right.

You could have a whole category of settings called "Warnings", then have a few styles like "Silent" "Vebose", and "Custom", and then all the individual check boxes.

At that point you darn well ought to have an import/export tool for your prefs.

Maybe there could even be a scriptable way to create a custom preference...

Or maybe it could all be left alone.

Rob Mack
busterkeaton wrote on 10/2/2004, 4:36 AM
Given that you can solo / mute bothe audio and video tracks and it's visually obvious I cannot quite see why it'd be that necessary.

It's obviously for when you make a mistake. It would help prevent mistakes. If you accidentally, muted a track or soloed only some of the tracks, and started a render, you may not notice your error until after you render which is wasted time.

I do know that you get a visual indication about solo/mute, but if you are making a lot of changes and trying to hit a deadline, it easy to overlook.

That's why I posted it here to see if other people supported it or could think of problems with it. Your point about scripting is well taken.
farss wrote on 10/2/2004, 5:37 AM
Buster,
to be fair I've made more than my share of dumb/stupid stuff ups trying to hit a deadline. Odd thing is they never seem to happen when you don't have a deadline. And my first reaction is to promise that come sunrise I'll do a Zippy and buy a Mac. But then I remember one of the reasons I get stuck with these silly deadlines is cause someone had stuffed it up before I got to it, on a Mac :)
I've just gotten over the whole deadline thing. I've been fed so much BS about how WWIII will break out if the client doesn't have it by Monday only to learn a month later the client still hasn't looked at it much less sent it out for duplication.
So I guess the best advice is check twice, render once.

Bob.
Spot|DSE wrote on 10/2/2004, 7:05 AM
Just for the defense of Zippy, (yes, me defending Zippy) other than one single emotional outburst, he's been a perfect gentleman on the DMN forums, with intelligent, articulate posts. I don't know if his meds changed, maybe he found his Mecca, maybe the moon was in the right place, but he's been a respectful, normal guy over there for a few months now.
farss wrote on 10/2/2004, 7:13 AM
SPOT,
you're right! I shouldn't have held him up for ridicule and I have read a few of his posts over there, hard to believe it's the same guy. Kind of miss him over here, I know he got under a lot of peoples skin but it was entertaining although it did get needlessly personal at times.
Bob.
JasonMurray wrote on 10/3/2004, 8:34 PM
You do get a visual indication that certain tracks are off.

True, but if you're zoomed in you might not see that tracks are off.

btw, this should work with switched-off and solo'd tracks.

Preferences are there because they're preferences - everyone should be able to set their prefs as they see fit ... so yes this behaviour should be in preferences if implemented. :)