> On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 23:38 +0100, Gale Andrews wrote:
> > | From Steve <
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> > | Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:52:13 +0100
> > | Subject: [Audacity-devel] Fit vertically doesn't...bug or not?
> > > On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 17:48 -0700, Gale (Audacity Team) wrote:
> > > > Leland (Audacity Team) wrote:
> > > > > Gale (Audacity Team) wrote:
> > > > >> Leland wrote:
> > > > >> Also, shouldn't the tracks in a project be re-fit if the "Automatically
> > > > >> fit tracks..." preference setting is on?
> > > > >
> > > > > They are here on Windows ANSI Release
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Sorry, I didn't mention that they aren't refitting for me when I open a
> > > > >> project with say 20 tracks. Even with "Automatic..." set, I still have
> > > > >> to use the menu item to refit after opening.
> > > >
> > > > What do we want to do about this? At project opening, "automatically fit
> > > > vertically zoomed" as currently implemented and "save track heights in
> > > > project" are incompatible. For example, resize one of your twenty fitted
> > > > tracks, do some other edit if necessary and save and reopen the project.
> > > > That one track will be resized when you re-open. But if I reopen a
> > > > twenty-track project that was automatically fitted at exit (*and saved in
> > > > 1.3.8*), it reopens fitted due to the saved track heights. Are you still
> > > > seeing that it doesn't?
> > > >
> > > > If we make "automatically fit" like you suggested (refit is only done when a
> > > > track is added or deleted), then I think reopening projects with exactly
> > > > their saved heights is consistent with that.
> > > >
> > > > We're getting a fair few user suggestions now that a better/less confusing
> > > > solution than automatic fit would be a vertical project zoom essentially
> > > > like the horizontal zoom. This would be one solution to the niggle of having
> > > > to resize every track of a fitted multi-track project if you want to get an
> > > > overview of all the waveforms (Expand All Tracks only works if you
> > > > previously resized a track).
> > >
> > > There is a recent discussion on the Audacity forum about this:
> > >
http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=11098> > >
> > > One suggestion in that discussion:
> > >
> > > "It would be nice if scaling multiple tracks vertically could be
> > > achieved without the need for additional controls. Perhaps one way this
> > > could be done would be if manual vertical size adjustment affected all
> > > selected tracks. This way, if you want to zoom vertically on tracks 1,2
> > > and 4, you just need to select those tracks and as you adjust the
> > > vertical height of one, the vertical height of the other selected tracks
> > > would follow suit."
> > >
> > > That would also mean that all tracks could be resized by Ctrl+A before
> > > resizing a track.
> >
> > Thanks, Steve. OK well zooming selected tracks is probably still another
> > issue, as no doubt some people would not want to CTRL + A first to
> > perform an overall vertical zoom, possibly destroying their current
> > track selections.
>
> I would have thought that in most cases where a selection had been made,
> it would be the selected audio that they would want to resize.
or otherwise). The rationale seems to be do a quick scroll down to
check all for level and/or balance. This is somewhat easier if all the
tracks are at a consistent height.
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