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@Mike G wrote:

– I’m not sure “Snapshot” is the best name, sounds like a freeze/bounce feature!! How about “Zoom setting”, or “navigator setting” or “Zoom notch”…?

Really? I thought the word snapshot was appropriate in the sense that it is a photographic snapshot of the zoom pane in the navigator. It may be more obvious with the snapshot mouse-over highlighting in the new beta4. Anyone else think that “zoom snapshot” is a misnomer?

– When trying to zoom out past the ends of the current selection It’s harder to zoom out so that you can add more stuff after the end of the current arrangement, much harder than it was with a scroll bar. I will just add the scroll bar back in in my profile but wonder if the default setup could be made better. Can you think of a way of making this work in the navigator in an intuitive way?
The bext idea I can come up with is to allow scrolling of the navigator past the end of the last item in the arrangement.

Is that because you use the horizontal zoom slider or the rightmost arrow button on the scrollbar? I mostly use the mouse wheel over the timeline ruler or the navigator to quickly zoom out and then zoom in on the new section. Sometimes I also use the Shift+Alt shortcut for the slide tool.

– I still keep thinking that the editor profile buttons belong at the top near to all the other “view” options/menus etc…
(…Ctd – Pause to wash a baby!)
Basically to me it feels that the editor profile buttons should control all that is below them. Lik emost of the other view options at the top of the screen. It particularly feels odd when you click “Big transport” and the profile buttons all jump away from where they were.
In know last time I suggested this it was for different reasons (I wanted to claim back the space taken up by the buttons)
Anyway i’d be interested to see what others think.

Considering the way that the profiles are implemented, it would make sense to put them at the top, as a container for the entire editor. I placed them at the bottom because then they are closer to the editor/mixer/transport, which is the only part that is different in the default profiles. Less distance to move your mouse.

Beta4 is up:

The .pod file format is updated with the zoom snapshots, so back up your projects before saving them with this beta, in case you need to go back to 2.24.

Press Shift+1..9 to recall a snapshot.

Moved the “follow focus track” and “follow control surface” options from the mixer menu to the editor View menu. This means that the options now apply to both the tracks region and the mixer.

I’ve modified the way that the zoom range is displayed in the navigator. Hovering the mouse over a snapshot button will highlight the zoom range in the navigator. Let me know what you think of the new style.

@UncleAge wrote:

@Zynewave wrote:

• Added a favorite folder “+” button to the file browser toolbar.

I clicked the Browser button. The area already had 3 favorite buttons in place. Next I kept clicking the “+” button until there were 9 favorites added, all of the them the same folder. When I did this a couple of things seemed strange.

1. The “+” button disappeared. Now maybe this is ok since there wasn’t any room left in that area for another button. And I have no problem with the arbitrary number of 9 for favorites, but…

2. All of the “newly added” buttons were highlighted, seemingly as a group. So selecting any of them selected all of them.

3. I could not find a way to delete any of the favorite buttons. Any of them.

Obviously some part of this is a bug.

Thanks for the walkthrough. Favorites and zoom snapshots can be deleted by Alt+clicking the button, as mentioned in the popup help for those buttons. You can also delete the favorites in the “Favorite Folders” setup dialog. I’ve now made further changes that should make it easier to get through the problems you experienced:

The “+” buttons for both the favorites and zoom snapshots now only produce a new shortcut button if it does not already exist. When the + button is inactive it is indicated by a dimmed + image on the button.

The favorite buttons can now be right-clicked to show a menu similar to the one for the zoom snapshots and editor profile bar. In this menu you have a command for deleting the favorite.

This is available in beta2, which I just uploaded.

Also in beta2: Clicking a favorite folder or zoom snapshot button a second time will revert to the previous folder/zoom.

@LiquidProj3ct wrote:

Please, don’t misinterpret me: I think that they will be useful for other people but not for me, because I use 10-12 tracks as max for a song of 5-7 minutes.

Thanks for the explanation. Yes, the snapshots are mostly intended for navigation in large arrangements with many tracks. You can create a snapshot where the vertical zoom is at 0%, so that you can quickly get an overview of all the tracks, and zoom in on the area you want to work on. You can also create zoomed-in snapshots of e.g. drum tracks, bass tracks, vocal tracks and so on, so that you can quickly switch between these different sections.

Preview 2.25: Zoom snapshots & revised track height zoom

@Conquistador wrote:

Screenshots as promised… 😉

This is with ClearType on. Reaper IMO has much clearer text compared to Podium here. I really do not know why Podium looks much less clear compared to Reaper :-k

Podium is on the left and Reaper is on the right. Look at the “Fabfilter Timeless” text for the inserts.

But if I switch off ClearType…can you spot the difference between the two applications “Fabfilter Timeless” text now? I can hardly tell them apart…below…

Podium is far sharper than the first image now that Cleartype is off and matches (maybe even goes further than) Reapers text for clarity in the second image. Quite a difference and quite easy to see IMO with those screen shots.

So Podium it appears benefits clearly from having anti aliasing disabled for certain areas (inserts on tracks and mixer strips) but anti aliasing is very helpful elsewhere in Podium that is why I think adding some kind of option to disable anti aliasing for the Insert, Source and Input buttons (just for the tracks and mixer strips) will solve this problem.

I hope that helps.

Thanks.

Anti-aliasing of fonts and other graphic elements are two different things. Podium uses its own anti-aliasing routines when rendering buttons and lines etc.

When it comes to fonts, Podium uses the default smoothing options selected in the OS, such as Clear-type. Podium uses the “Microsoft Sans Serif” font, which is the default Windows font used way back on the earliest Windows versions. Reaper probably uses a different font, since there are small differences in the letters at the small size.

I’ve done some experiments with alternative fonts. I also tried to set the small font to be aliased, while the normal font is anti-aliased, and frankly I think the two shown together looks horrible 😕

In a future update I’ll add the possibility for the user to select a custom font in Preferences.