Scrolling by a frame at a time

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2005/06/21 12:51:24 (permalink)

Scrolling by a frame at a time

I am currently working with some material which needs to have events locked to specific frames, but as there is no real rewind/fast forward mechanism in Sonar, I am struggling.

In the Video preview window, you can scroll using cntl + left/right arrow...this is great, but it jumps in 5 frame blocks. I have looked in the manual but can't find a way to change this. Is it possible>

Currently I am having to zoom in to single frames on the thumbnail track, then switch to the preview window and scroll by five frames until I am close to the point and then use the scroll bar on the track view to move backwards to find the exact frame....and it is a huge pain.

Please tell me this is possible.

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Neil

Neil S. Bruce Msc B.Eng(Hons) Dip(Mus)
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    luckyg
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    RE: Scrolling by a frame at a time 2005/06/21 16:56:57 (permalink)
    If you go to the Key Bindings and change the Bind Context to "Video View" you will see commands for advancing/step backwards by one frame. Just bind those to some keys and whenever the video preview window is the highlighted window those keys will work.

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    brucie
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    RE: Scrolling by a frame at a time 2005/06/21 17:30:54 (permalink)
    Luckyg Thank you so much!!

    I am not sure how I missed that, I think because cntl+left arrow are already mapped to 5 frames, I thought that was the limit!

    Awesome! I am so happy, now if only you could do that in the track view!

    Neil

    Neil S. Bruce Msc B.Eng(Hons) Dip(Mus)
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    luckyg
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    RE: Scrolling by a frame at a time 2005/06/21 19:51:17 (permalink)
    Well, there might be a way to do it using a CAL script that has a key bind to it. www.collusioninc.org.uk has some transport control scripts to move the NOW marker forward/backward by a musical time amount. I don't know if there's a way to modify it to moving by frames. But, if you don't use the midi tempo for midi tracks you could set the tempo in sonar to just the right amount so that one of those CAL scripts would move frame by frame. I did a quick test and I think it would work... just a matter of doing the math so the measures/beats is the same as frames. Of course that's only if you don't need Sonar's tempo for midi tracks!

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    RE: Scrolling by a frame at a time 2005/06/22 09:04:26 (permalink)
    Thanks Luckyg

    I have seen that Cal script before and it does do exactly what I need, but unfortnatly I am scoring to picture so tempo is crucial. I hope that a proper scrolling cursor gets implemented in the next version it is the only thing that I can't believe isn't present in Sonar.

    Thanks once again

    Neil

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