Tracks are locked together

Caruso wrote on 1/6/2002, 9:12 AM

Ok, My project has seven tracks - three video, three audio - all are tracks to which I drag media materials - and one track I call the master video track to which I drag the vidclip from the other three tracks which will become part of my final project.

My problem . . . I'm used to muting/unmuting tracks at will to view whatever I feel I need to see. Lately, I've encountered a problem where, somehow, the tracks get locked together, so that, if I click on any one track's mute button, all track buttons change to mute all tracks. Unclicking works the same way. Solo buttons are also all working in unison.

I know I'm supposed to be able to do this by selecting all the tracks. My question, how do I get these tracks to work independently again. I've had to resort to opening a new project, and copying and pasting existing project to the new one.

That seems to do the trick for a while, until the tracks decide to lock up once again.

The last time this happened was when I deliberately selected all (alt,E,L) to split everything. Tracks locked up so that I could not individually mute or solo any of them again in that project.

I am still able to select individual events or all the events on an individual track, just can't get anyone audio or video track to play/not play by itself.

Help if you can. This is frustrating me.

I'm certain it's something stupid.

Thanks in advance.

Caruso

Comments

Sonic_Curt wrote on 1/6/2002, 10:38 AM

I think I understand what you are running into...

There are several things that can be 'selected' as you suspect. You can select events, and you can select 'tracks'. The Track Header is where the Mute/Solo, Volume/Pan (audio), Opacity Level (video), etc. controls are. You will notice that the background of these 'headers' will change color when they are 'selected'.

OK, now the hard part. In order to keep things from being too 'volatile' during event selections, there are some rules that the Track Header selections follow... They are more 'sticky' than the event selections (and this is a good thing).

It's these rules that are causing your frustration. Basically, the Track Header will stay selected until you either click on a Track Header itself (with no Ctrl or Shift key held) or until you click on an event that exists on a track that is NOT selected.

To force specific Track Headers to be selected, you can hold the Ctrl or Shift keys down to select them just like multi-selecting Events (or files in the Windows Explorer).

-curt.

Caruso wrote on 1/6/2002, 12:00 PM

Duh, you'd think that someone who had spent as much time over the last couple of weeks with this program as I had would:

1)have stumbled into this little situation prior to now

2)would have enough intuitive smarts to stumble onto the solution

but you'd be thinking wrong in my case.

I appreciate the quick response . . . it was, of course, right on.

Caruso