Hello again avid community. I've been trying to found out if something like this exists: when you've got a clip in the Source Monitor, you can use the Toggle Source/Record in timeline. This is useful to viewing in detail the clip in the source monitor, and specially useful for working with audio, waveforms, and keyframes.

So with the toggle source/record in timeline I can manage to have great control over a clip I plan to put on my sequence in the timeline. BUT, is there a way to gain that amount of control over a clip that is ALREADY in the timeline?

I mean, i'm adjusting audio levels and using the waveforms as reference on clips in the timeline, but the only way I'm being able to do this correctly is by zooming and/or enlargin the audio track I'm working on. But this way I have to enlarge multiple times until I get a correct size, and then I have to decrease the size to it's original aspect.

So, what I'm looking is a quick way of having an enlarged view of audio clips that are already in the timeline, similar to the one the "toggle source/record in timeline" offers. Or maybe there's another workflow for adjusting volume with detail that I'm not thinking of.

I hope I'm making myself clear. But please ask me If I'm not. Thanks

gabocaba:

what I'm looking is a quick way of having an enlarged view of audio clips that are already in the timeline, similar to the one the "toggle source/record in timeline" offers.

The Timeline view, and control of it, is about the same regardless of whether you're looking at the Source clip in the Timeline window or the Sequence in the Timeline window.

So, to enlarge the audio tracks, just hit CTRL+L with the audio tracks enabled.

In addition to what Kenton said, you should make use of your audio mode in the toolsets menu. Personally, for this mode, I hide the video monitors so that I have maximum screen real estate for the timeline. Then, I have created and saved various customized timeline views where I have vertically enlarged individual audio tracks and groups of audio tracks. That way, I do not have to manually enlarge and reduce audio tracks each time I want to work with them, I simply call up the appropriate saved timeline view. For example:

Thank you both. Kenton, I knew that way of working, but the idea was not having to manually enlarge and reduce the size of the tracks, and being able to have the selected clip bigger with one keystroke (like toggle source/record in timeline allows for clips in the source monitor).

I', new to this so I had ignored the different toolsets configurations. I'll follow your advise Larry and work with different toolset and timelines views. Nevertheless it's not exactly what I was looking for, but is useful for that and I guess there's not to many better ways of approaching this.

Also, is there a predefined Ctrl + shortcut for accesing the different toolsets? I didn't find it in the manual, but being as there is one for the Full screen toolset (Ctrl+Alt+F), maybe there's one for the others, so I don't need to map another.

Thanks again

Hi,

You can assign a workspace or toolset to whatever key you like.  For example, I have my basic editing workspace set to F9, capture to F10, audio to F11 and color correction to F12, and all of the various windows and timeline views with different track heights and waveform displays linked.  Whenver I want to switch from one to another I just press the appropriate key.  It's awesome once you get it all set up the way you like.

ciao,
Carl 

Yes, I'm beggining to see the great possibilities of working that way. I already started setting my own workspaces. Thank you all again.

The beauty of working with toolsets and workspaces is being able to configure the GUI in any manner you choose relative to the task at hand, especially as it pertains to manipulating audio and effects, and by mapping them to the keyboard, instantaneously switch from one to another. Even better is the ability to use the "link current to..." dialog to have a specific timeline view automatically loaded when switching to a specific toolset or workspace. Toolsets and workspaces are identical in their functionality. The only difference is with workspaces, you are not limited to six presets as you are with toolsets. You can create as many workspaces as you desire.

That seems very useful. I'll start looking info on the workspaces. I hadn't had a change to get to it yet. Thank you again Larry.