Disable snap selection to grid

[idris]

Is there any way to disable the snap selection to grid funciton?

ie When using the Selector Tool (or the Smart Tool equivalent) if you hold CMD (Mac) and select a portion of a clip with the cursor, the selection boundary snaps to the next grid value.

I don't remember being pestered by this function until sometime around PT12.???. Now I find it a complete PITA.

[kalony]

dont you just habe to select „slip“ instead of „grid“ in the upper left corner?


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[idris]

For the workflow in question I'm using Shuffle more.
The snap only occirs when CMD is pressed in conjunction with a mouse drag.

[kalony]

hmm, sorry, i am still not sure what you want to know.
in shuffle modus „snap to grid“ should be disabled by default.
i dont even know, if you can enable it with pressing cmd as you can do it in slip mode for example.


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[idris]

It's not the positioning of the clip that snaps to the grid, but rather the boundary of the selection you are trying to make.
Try this :
Choose Shuffle mode
Set Grid to 1sec
Zoom in on the time line until you have about 5sec visible.
Using the Smart Tool, select about half a second.
Then try to make the same selection whilst holding down CMD.
The second time the out point of the selection, will snap to the mext whole second.

[Rich Breen]

Originally Posted by idris

...ie When using the Selector Tool (or the Smart Tool equivalent) if you hold CMD (Mac) and select a portion of a clip with the cursor, the selection boundary snaps to the next grid value...

I don't understand; why are you holding the cmd key down while editing if you don't want the function it provides? Why not just release the cmd key?

[idris]

I'm not intentionally doing it.

After making a selection I am using Paste To Fill, which uses CMD. Because I have an Apple Magic Mouse, unless I move my index finger well clear of the surface of the mouse, PT recognises it as CMD/select.
I'm trying ot get out of the habbit of leaving my finger on the surface of the mouse (after 30yrs of mouse use it's quite a habbit to break), but it would be a whole lot easier just to diable the function.

That's the Why.
I take it there are no suggestions as to How?

[Ffab]

Same problem here! Have you found a solution?

The only workaround i`ve found is to set grid to samples and then choose 1 sample...

[idris]

My best work around is to slow down.
I wondered whether it's something loosely to do with using a Magic Mouse and the surface thnking you're scrolling when you're not, but haven't got round to digging out something more primitive.

[scottmckay]

Originally Posted by idris

My best work around is to slow down.

This absolutely hit the nail on the head for me.

I feel like I literally have to edit in slow motion now that this behavior is mandatory.

Since command always meant slip mode, with one finger I could both ensure my edits would slip (regardless of mode) and at the same time already have half of the next key command pressed, say, for the next tool I was going to switch to, all WHILE I was drawing a selection or trimming a region. It was a great workflow that really let me fly thru a dense editing session.

Not so anymore.

Now I have to stop and make sure I release my click before hitting the command key. This wastes time now that I have to add this waiting phase to the workflow. It really adds up when you have a few thousand edits to perform over the course of a session.

Default behavior? Fine! But all I want for Christmas is a cute little checkbox that lets me disable this behavior so I can get back to editing efficiently.