Quote: Annoying, isn't it?

"Annoying" is a euphemistic way of putting it, Michael! Silly? Glitchy? Waste of time? Absolutely.

It's been like that, here, since (at least) PD11. Highlight one column - type - numbers change in adjacent column. Redo. OK. Waste of time.

It's equally annoying that it's been that way for so long with no fix... in fact, I think it's the first time it's been raised in the forum. I thought it may have just been me.

Cheers - Tony
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Quote: When I try to alter the Duration of a Foto or Transition choosing the "Duration" button, I may vary the numbers with the up and down arrow Buttons (rather tedious) or enter the Duration directly.
But in the latter case, when I enter numbers for seconds, the number for Frames changes from 00 to 01.
Annoying, isn't it?

Michael.

Your not typing fast enough, when PD went to the overlap/cross transitions, the behavior of this adjust button changed and affected the "Duration" usage for photos. When you first click the seconds field, the number shows blue, watch carefully, on my system I have maybe two seconds. If you type while blue, you enter as seconds and then the curser jumps to the next field. If you start in the minutes field (blue ~2sec) jumps to seconds (blue ~2sec) and then ends on frames.

This was brought up previously, in PD prior to overlap/cross transition feature change, the whole number frame would highlight blue and you had what ever time it took you to type.

Transitions, not sure how you use the duration button with transitions, I believe that ability was removed when transitions were changed. I have not found the ability to do it, just drag ends only method I know.

Jeff

Hi Jeff -

I'd never noticed that - it highlights then UNhighlights in about 2 seconds. OK - I'll just have to be quicker on the draw!

The transition duration button was re-introduced in PD12, after repeated cries from forum members.



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The Limitation of 2 seconds for the entry of Digits was already a Feature of PD10 (I've skipped v11, so I don't know about that), but the annoying Thing is, that, when I edit the two Digits for seconds, the "00" for Frames are changing to "01".
Michael.

P.S.: Another annoying Thing is, that my text Editor here in this forum thinks that I write in German, always putting in capital letters - does anyone know how to stop that?

Another annoying Thing is, that my text Editor here in this forum thinks that I write in German, always putting in capital letters - does anyone know how to stop that?

Michael -

Are you running any auto-correct add-ons or options in your browser? That's possibly what's inserting capitals for you.

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Here I was giving 2 clik felt good, now give better and it seemed to me works fine if I click between the digit and the 2 points, never seems to fail.
Maybe the error is an incorrect position of the touch sensor (clik) button

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Another annoying Thing is, that my text Editor here in this forum thinks that I write in German, always putting in capital letters - does anyone know how to stop that?

Michael -

Are you running any auto-correct add-ons or options in your browser? That's possibly what's inserting capitals for you.

Cheers - Tony

Let's give it a try! - Yes! Thanks, Tony!
I found a browser add-on for correct typing and deactivated it.
No idea, where from that add-on is...
Michael.

Quote: The Limitation of 2 seconds for the entry of Digits was already a Feature of PD10 (I've skipped v11, so I don't know about that), but the annoying Thing is, that, when I edit the two Digits for seconds, the "00" for Frames are changing to "01".
Michael.

Yep, I see what you are saying with the 01 in frames. That happens for me too in PD12 but not PD11. To further comment on it, it only happens on my system for seconds setting less than 10 and you enter it as say 09. If you just enter the seconds as 9 you will not get the 01 frames.

Looks like a integer field hack on the coding.

Jeff

I just found a possible - logic - explanation:
I was used (with PD10) to type "03" into the seconds field, when I wanted the clip/photo/transition to last for 3 seconds.
Now one only needs to type in "3" for three seconds.
When starting with the "0", PD12 assumes, that you enter zero seconds, then needing at least ONE frame as the minimal length possible. So it replaces the "00" of the frames into "01".
For me a strange logic, but at last comprehensible.
Michael.

Thank you Michael -- your suggestion worked perfectly. I put up with error (maybe not an error) for quite a while, altering the duration by seconds. Now, your solution is SO simple. Life is now much better.
Terry