Hi Frits,
I’ve been trying to work out why I’ve never been able to use the “double-click on the timeline” function to get Podium to play from a particular part of the timeline using the mouse. Yesterday I tried Podium on a Vista machine and I was amazed to find that this function worked, and that there was a whole range of extra functions visible in the right-click menu.
This is the right-click menu on my XP machine:
and this is the right-click menu on the Vista machine I tested:
In addition to these differences, I noticed that there are four extra buttons at the top-left of the arrange window:
that don’t appear on my XP machine:
I assumed that there must be some setting that I’ve inadvertently changed on my XP machine, so I
but I still can’t get these functions to work in XP.
Can you tell me what I might be doing wrong?
Cheers,
Malcolm.
Actually, I think it’s the other way around – you’re using an older setup on Vista and the setup on your XP machine is the (new) default setup.
Is the installation on your Vista PC a fresh one? If not, try to load the default setup from the setup menu.
BUT make a BACKUP first (Save Complete Setup).
The CSPL buttons ‘disappeared’ with version 2.07 and the default click actions for the timeline ruler changed. Playback is started with a double click on the middle mouse button, in this case.
To be able to start playback by double-left-click, you’ll have to disable the following option:
View – Editor Profile Properties – Timeline ruler – Properties – Left click to slide timeline.
Also, are you sure you right-clicked on the timeline ruler in your first screenshot? It looks more like the menu for the tracks region, which is of course the same on Vista.
I hope I’m not getting things messed up here, but Frits’ll surely correct me if I am. ๐
Hi thcilnnahoj,
Thanks for the clarification about the options and buttons. I don’t know why the Vista machine would show the old buttons in the 2.09 version, but I realise now they shouldn’t be there.
@thcilnnahoj wrote:
To be able to start playback by double-left-click, you’ll have to disable the following option:
View – Editor Profile Properties – Timeline ruler – Properties – Left click to slide timeline.
This is the solution I was looking for. Thanks! ๐
Interestingly, there are four identically named “Timeline ruler” options in my Editor Profile Properties:
“Left click to slide timeline” was only selected in the last of these four.
I’m very glad to have double-click working. For a moment there I thought I might have to swap to Vista! ๐
Cheers,
Malcolm.
Yes, sorry I forgot to mention there are four seperate timeline rulers now.
In case you didn’t read up on the 2.07 changes, three (S, P, L) of the rulers are hidden by default, and only show when you need them. You can try it by activating loop-mode or punch-in/out.
You can, of course, also have the old way back by deleting the top three rulers and activating those three ‘Show … range’ options in the properties of the remaining ruler. Or just customize away, the options should be self explanatory. ๐