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Originally Posted by JingleDjango
Can someone please explain the issue for non-post users? I work in music and I'm curious.
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in postproduction automation is used all the time
you don't set the eq for dialog in the whole movie, you eq and process each line, sometimes each word individually.
you do this by entering preview mode, tweaking the plugins, selecting the range where you want your settings to be written to, and clicking WRITE TO SELECTION.
all fine - if you select a range.
if you just place a cursor somewhere in the session (so the LENGTH of selection is 0) and you click WRITE TO SELECTION -
you will write your settings to the whole session.
imagine tweaking dialogs for 6 weeks and then erasing all the eq automation with one click.
so there is a requester asking you every time if you are sure you know what you are doing. it says "are you sure you want to write automation to your selected range?" or "are you sure you want to write automation to the whole session?"
you have to read the requester and press enter. hundrets times a day.
or disable these warnings in preferences.
but then you risk that one day at 2 AM you don't select a range and write auto to the whole session erasing for example all you eq.
what we need is a requester that pops up only when we're going to write automation to the whole session - this is a scary thing that can ruin your work.
writing automation to selected range should happen with no requester at all.