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Working with projects
Zoom and view options
Zooming in the Project window is done according to the
standard zoom techniques, with the following special notes:
• When you are using the Zoom tool (magnifying glass),
the result depends on the “Zoom Tool Standard Mode:
Horizontal Zooming Only” option in the Preferences dialog
(Editing–Tools page).
If this is activated and you drag a selection rectangle with the Zoom tool,
the window will only be zoomed horizontally (track height will not change).
If the option is off, the window will be zoomed both horizontally and verti
-
cally.
• When using the vertical zoom sliders, the tracks are
scaled relatively.
In other words, if you have made any individual track height adjustments
(see below), the relative height differences are maintained.
You find the following options are available on the Zoom
submenu on the Edit menu:
• If the “Zoom while Locating in Time Scale” option is ac-
tivated in the Preferences dialog (Transport page), you
can also zoom by clicking in the ruler and dragging up or
down with the mouse button pressed.
Drag up to zoom out; drag down to zoom in.
• You can zoom the contents of parts and events verti-
cally, using the waveform zoom slider in the top right cor-
ner of the event display.
This is useful when viewing quiet audio passages.
• If you activate the option Quick Zoom in the Preferences
dialog (Editing page), the contents of parts and events will
not be continuously redrawn when you zoom manually.
Instead, the contents are redrawn once you have stopped changing the
zoom – activate this if screen redraws are slow on your system.
Zoom presets and cycle markers
The pop-up menu to the left of the horizontal zoom control
allows you to select, create and organize zoom presets.
These are useful if you want to toggle between different
zoom settings (e.
g. one where the whole project is dis-
played in the project window and another with a high
zoom factor for detailed editing). With this pop-up menu,
you can also zoom in on the area between cycle markers
in the project.
Option Description
Zoom In Zooms in one step, centering on the project cursor.
Zoom Out Zooms out one step, centering on the project cursor.
Zoom Full Zooms out so that the whole project is visible. “The
whole project” means the timeline from the project
start to the length set in the Project Setup dialog (see
above).
Zoom to
Selection
Zooms in horizontally and vertically so that the current
selection fills the screen.
Zoom to Selec-
tion (Horiz)
Zooms in horizontally so that the current selection fills
the screen.
Zoom to Event This option is available only in the Sample Editor (see
“Zooming” on page 266).
Zoom In Vertically Zooms in one step vertically.
Zoom Out
Vertically
Zooms out one step vertically.
Zoom In Tracks Zooms in on the selected track(s) one step vertically.
Zoom Out Tracks Zooms out the selected track(s) one step vertically.
Zoom Selected
Tracks
This zooms in vertically on the selected track(s) and
minimizes the height of all other tracks.
Undo/Redo
Zoom
These options allow you to undo/redo the last zoom
operation.
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To get an approximate reading on the level of the au-
dio events by viewing the waveforms, make sure this
slider is all the way down. Otherwise, zoomed wave-
forms may be mistaken for clipped audio.
Click here…
…to open the context
menu.