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I started a song, and then packed comtainer to a 2nd container. This I cut into a few sections and wanted to repeat, cut/paste etc.
I followed the manual instruction on making room. It wouldn't work with the spit containers, which would make sense to me. (make room - greyed out). When I highlighted the root container, I defined the length, and 'make room' was an available command. But it didn't seem to do anything. I would have assumed it would adjust all but the root container's locations.
What am I missing?
If possible I would love the ability to highlight several containers and move as one.
Tue, 2012-05-29 - 16:59 Permalink
Make Room requires that you
1. select the parent container (root, probably)
2. select the span you want to insert on the time ruler
Only then the item is not greyed out.
Wed, 2012-05-30 - 06:53 Permalink
Unless I'm doing something wrong. I can highlight two containers using command left click but I can only move one container. As soon as I click another command only one container remains hightlighted and moveable. I can highlight and move multiple containers with the arrow keys, but I would also prefer to use the mouse.
You need to have the same dexterity, cut, move/paste. shorten, lengthen you have with prhases to work on containers too.
Thanks Supertonic, I got it to work. It appears 'automatic sectioning must be off. (what is that anyways?)
Wed, 2012-05-30 - 08:50 Permalink
I can highlight and move multiple containers with the arrow keys, but I would also prefer to use the mouse.
Yep. That doesn't work yet. Extremely hard to do, because internally, containers are trees actually. You could not move multiple child containers inside multiple parents, for example. This only works with relative, step by step, movement. Hence the arrows.
Automatic Sectioning keeps all immediate children of a container strictly in a row, regardless how you resize them.