Frame by Frame scrolling

[ironchef_marc]

I use to be able to scroll frame by frame either with the L and R arrows or + and - buttons but arrows no longer work and + and - moves by small amount of ticks. In fact they seem random, going back and forth I get different ticks amount variation. Looks like a bug to me.

[dix]

Have you changed computer keyboards by chance? Is it possible that the keyboard is transmitting erratically? I used to have scroll wheel mouse that allowed me to scroll incrementally in numeric fields, including frame by frame, in DP but it died. I haven’t been able to find one since that behaves predictably for this type of operation.

[ironchef_marc]

Thanks for the suggestion but no I did not change my keyboard.

[dix]

Thinking about this. I actually don't recall ever having this functionality with DP.

How exactly are/were you doing this frame-by-frame scrolling with a keyboard? Are you highlighting frames in the counter and then using + - ?

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I’d guess you’d have to be in the movie window and use the arrow keys.

[dix]

I’d guess you’d have to be in the movie window and use the arrow keys.

Tried that. Nupe. ....in Quicktime you can do that, but not in DP.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Those bastards! It now that begs the question: or you do it in DP when they used the QuickTime engine? Maybe that’s why the Iron Chef remembers it working before.

[dix]

This occurred to me too, but he’s currently using DP 9.52 and getting frame scrolling somehow via + -, albeit erratic.

[ironchef_marc]

I did not know they changed the movie engine. In any case I`ll ask that feature again. Kind of crucial for film scoring.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I did not know they changed the movie engine. In any case I`ll ask that feature again. Kind of crucial for film scoring.

My best guess is that Apple wanted a licensing agreement. The really bad part for me is that i can't export referenced movies, which take up a lot less disk space and are much easier to deal with in post.

Finale also did away COMPLETELY with their movie window, which may also be an indication of a licensing issue with Apple (again, I'm speculating).

[dix]

Still, I bet MOTU could make numeric fields incrementally changeable if they were so inclined. It would be mighty handy, not just for frame scrolling, but for a lot of other things too.