Is there a way to force MEP to automatically place a Recording where you want it?

pmikep wrote on 10/25/2015, 10:46 AM

Perhaps I'll make a video later to show the problem. But when I'm making YouTube videos, I often "re-voice over" the video with numerous clips from the Record > Audio function.

So, for example, I might have one long draft audio track on Track 6 to get me started. Then I'll want to tune up what I said. So I will put the playback maker at a certain point in the video and I will click on a track, say empty Track 5. I expect that MEP will automatically place my recorded clip at that place on that track. Instead, MEP will put the audio clip where it wants. Sometimes at the end of the video if MEP doesn't think it will fit anywhere else. Sometimes it will butt the latest audio take against the previous one. Or it will put it on another Track entirely. Is there a way to make MEP automatically place the recorded clip at the playback marker on the Track I designate as "hot"?

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johnebaker wrote on 10/25/2015, 2:21 PM

AFAICS MEP uses the first available tracjk that has enough empty space to accept the recording.

However if you lock all the tracks where you do not want the recording to be placed it will use the next available space / unlocked track with sufficient room for the recording.

You may have to change your workflow slightly to ensure that the recordings are always on higher track numbers then video, images, music etc.

It would help us when you post if you give the version of MEP you are using, your computer specification and Windows version.

HTH

John EB

pmikep wrote on 10/25/2015, 6:57 PM

Hi John:

Sorry for not detailing the verion of MEP and Windows. Actually, this behavior in MEP has been this way since MEP 11. But I am now using MEP Plus 2016, on Windows 7 - 64 bit, SP1 with patches to Sept.

After I posted my question, I thought about Locking Tracks or making a Track Solo. I suppose that is an acceptable work around. Although I would still like to have a "point and shoot" feature, where I can direct MEP to put a new recording/object on the track of my choice with a mouse click.

How do I go about making a request for enhancement to Magix for someone to consider adding a feature to address this behavior?

Hi

AFAICS MEP uses the first available tracjk that has enough empty space to accept the recording.

However if you lock all the tracks where you do not want the recording to be placed it will use the next available space / unlocked track with sufficient room for the recording.

You may have to change your workflow slightly to ensure that the recordings are always on higher track numbers then video, images, music etc.

It would help us when you post if you give the version of MEP you are using, your computer specification and Windows version.

HTH

John EB

johnebaker wrote on 10/26/2015, 5:18 AM

. . . .in MEP 2105 and below, it used to be that when you clicked on a Track at an empty space and clicked on the mouse, a white dot would be placed there . . . .

I have been using MEP for a very long while - since version 11 - and have never seen this happen. I have just checked all versions of MEP from 17 onwards and do not see this.

Can you give more detail on where you click on the track, which mouse button you click - left, centre, right - and post a screen shot of the section of track with the dot.

John EB

pmikep wrote on 10/26/2015, 5:33 AM

I clicked on any "white space" (free space) on the track with the left mouse button and I used to get a small white dot or very small circle. It doesn't happen in MEP 2016. I have MEP 2015, MEP 2013 and MX installed on my main computer. I'll try those later to see if I can reproduce it again and will post a screen shot if I can. (I have a new video card now, so that's one variable that has changed since then. Perhaps the dot was an artifact? We'll see . . .)

Hi

. . . .in MEP 2105 and below, it used to be that when you clicked on a Track at an empty space and clicked on the mouse, a white dot would be placed there . . . .

I have been using MEP for a very long while - since version 11 - and have never seen this happen. I have just checked all versions of MEP from 17 onwards and do not see this.

Can you give more detail on where you click on the track, which mouse button you click - left, centre, right - and post a screen shot of the section of track with the dot.

John EB

pmikep wrote on 10/26/2015, 8:53 AM

Okay, I went back and tried MEP MX, MEP 2013 and MEP 2015. I don't get the white dot on those anymore.

What I did get on MX was an artifact of the dashed lines from the "selection box" that one can draw to grab objects on the time line.

So I'm guessing what I used to see was an artifact from that when I would click the mouse without moving.