ok, so I have my perfect workspace created in MC6.I now fit in the perfect BIN layout, save it, and link it to a workspace, through its properties...
and here is the caveat: WORKSPACES are user settings, BIN LAYOUT project settings.If i create a new project, everytime I have to recreate my peferct BIN LAYOUT and relink it to the already saved WORKSPACE... sigh...can't bin layout just be a user setting, and therefore always be attached to a workspace??Cause now if you have several workspaces with several bin layouts linked, AND you create a new project, you have to RECREATE every bin layout for every workspace AND link it to its WORKSPACE...I hope I am getting this all right here.
btw. I als tried and put the BIN LAYOUTS in the site settings... but that brought up BINS from the first project in the second project, or strange error messages, BIN_NOT FOUND....Hope you can find yourself in my way of thinking...
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Wim - what do you mean by bin layout? Do you mean the size and location of the first bin window? 'Cause bins are project specific so what exactly would you expect. For me - I'd like to have some way to tell MC - this is where I want my bins to appear and then to have them all automatically tabbed into that location - that way, the interface is consistent from one project to the next. Is that sort of what you are looking for?
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yes, that is exactly what I mean...
the size and location of the bins I have tabbed (used to be the size and location of my superbin) is not saved anymore in the workspace, but in the bin layout... so if you go from one project to another, you can start arranging again all your bin sizes and locations.
maybe this is because the superbin doesn't exist anymore.... but this should be possible with the first generic bin that is created in a new project...
Agreed - another poster in the 'Superbin' thread was suggesting the same. I wonder how the MC UI designers missed this - the idea that when you double-click on a bin that it should automatically open as a tab inside the main bin window (make this the new 'superbin' equivalent)?
If you want your bin outside this 'superbin', you could always grab the tab and tear it off...
User settings are part of a project since 5.5 something.
It's not on MC6 only.
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Interesting - I never noticed that in 5.5 - I'm not sure that makes it any better, though. What do you think George? Particularly on a laptop with limited realestate... wouldn't it be better to be able to save workspaces as a user setting not bound to a particular project.
Going to have to play with this a bit to understand what's saved where ;0
MC6 is better as to adjusting workspaces than previous versions.
Having the settings on a project is faster if you have for example some 4:3 projects
and some 16:9 and you want to open the one or the other faster with anything in place
than going and selecting a new setting.
Going back from MC6 to previous versions is not recommended as far as workspaces
are concerned because the settings can become a mess.
It's good and bad.
MC6 is a new era fro Avid.
From the time the users will forget the oldest versions (having new plugins FIRST PRIORITY)
and go on with the 64bit versions, things will get a lot better.
I much perfer having it on a project basis.
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Makes sense that the bin layout is project based.
If a project coems to me it's nice if it retains the bin layout the editor set up.
I don't want to have to use their user settings to access the bin layout,
Also if another editor steps into a job and switches to their user settings they'd lose the bin layout.
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true...
but what if I rearrange my bins according my workspaces, (because of the distribution on the screen of other tools). I would need to do that for every workspace in every project.
What exactly are we talking about when we say bin layout? For me - it's about location and size of the window that holds the tabbed bins, not the arrangement of the tabs within that window. Now I suppose if the bins aren't docked in a single 'superbin' (yeah - I know that's not what they call it anymore) then it makes sense that their arrangement should be based on the project (since the number of bins and their location can only be tied to the project) - I would say Avid has some more rationalizing to do - maybe figure out if there is a way to retain the location of the superbin and have a mode to auto-dock as I mentioned earlier.
It's complicated and I can see why the Engineers may have decided to simply make it a project setting instead of trying to solve the unsolvable ;-)
Agreed. It would be nice though to have the option to import bin layouts from another project, like you can import bins from another project. What do you think?
as far as i understand, bin layout does actually not only refer to the layout, but also to which bins are open. so for me it is useless, as i would like to preserve the position, size, etc. of the bins, but not what bins are open at a certain time.
Same. Of course I don't want to keep other project bins open
(that was not meant sarcastically, just truthfully)
especially considering there's the awesome option to link workspaces to bin layout.... very handy but not so much if you have to redo it every time.
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