Yup, I knew about the +- option. But I want to be selective about the tracks. There is the little magnifying glass - this makes everything small. I can't seem to be able to reverse this - other than using the +- option. - Something selective AND the mag glass working in reverse would be neat - yeah?

Grazie

You can try this...

Move your cursor over the divider line between tracks in the track header area. The cursor will change to a double header arrow with two lines between them. While holding down your left mouse button, slowly drag up and down for the tracks you want to increase or decrease in height. Each track can be a different height.

BB and Tors - thanks -You two must be thinking ""Surely he knows this by now - he's been around here long enough!" - And I really do appreciate your relpies - hey this is the problem with emailing. If we were in the same room this would have been done and dusted within 10 seconds. But, here I go again - please be patient . . .

Nothwithstanding my confusion over the fact the mag. glass icon makes the track/s "smaller" - weird SoFo concept here - I would have thought that a mag glass would have made the tracks bigger, what I'm looking to happen is to be able to "select" a bunch of tracks, say tracks 2,4,7 out of 10 and magnify them only. Yeah, that's it!

See what I mean now .. . again. my apologies for not spelling it out previously . . . and yes, I can't expect for you to know what I know.

..... just as an after thought, it would be really neat if I could have a facility either here or elsewhere to post a quick "What am I doing wrong here?" type of streaming site. I could do a quick 'n dirty Camstudio avi - yeah?

Best regards

Grazie

When tracks have different heights and you touch the minus or plus button they all become uniform in a flash.
Tor

Yup TorS - Got that . . what I want/wish to do is selectively make a series of tracks Larger - yes?

Grazie

Hi Grazie!
My solution to this is:
Start with F11 to hide the docking area, gives you more room for sizing your tracks.
click the vertical +-button until all tracks are the size you want for the large display.
Click the "-"sign in the track headers of the tracks you do not need larger - reduces them to minimum. There is also a maximize and restore sign in the track header - have you ever tried to maximize a track in the timeline? Odd view, that.
If you want to use the magnifying glass to magnify, you have to draw a rectangle with it on your tracks, not just click on the timeline. The click function just helps to display a large area to draw your rectangle on.
Happy editing! Alex

Forgot to add: When you have found a track height you'd prefere as default, you can set this in the track header's context menu "set track properties...."

Alex,
Good beginning and end. Here's an improvement on the middle part:
Once you've set your preferred height for all tracks (could be a one time thing if you set it in default track properties), minimize all tracks at once with your magnifying glass and click once on the restore track height icon in the headers of the tracks you want to select.
Tor

Brill! - Will try this out. Just a chum 'round to see some footage I did of his band - I will give it a go - Many thanx

grazie