Overlays and Media Manager Problems

[djkoz]

I have two problems for which I need help:

1. If I drag one clip over another how can I easily tell that the clips are overlapped if I do not have any type of transition in effect. I may be experimenting with the timeline and then later forget that I have overlapped two clips because I don't see any visual indication that the clips are overlapped, like you get when crossfades are turned on. Hopefully, I don't have to turn on crossfades to get a visual indication of the overlap because if I later decide to remove the overlap the fade is still in effect.

2. When I use the Explorer tab in the Docking Window to locate and preview a file it is automatically being added to my Media Manger database. How can I prevent this? I'll be previewing a lot of files that I won't want to be in my project nor the Media Manager database.

Thank you very much in advance.

Dan K

 

[Sol M.]

If you don't want to have crossfades/transitions between events, the best thing may be to position the events on separate tracks. Then it will be very evident that they overlap and by how much.

If you must have events on the same track, then you can view their overlap by right-clicking a track header and choosing "Expand Track Layers". This is basically a traditional A/B roll view, and will show you the different overlapping events on the track with a visual indicator of the amount of overlap on events.