11 Replies Latest reply: Dec 16, 2013 6:14 AM by PierreLouisBeranek RSS

    Intelligent tooltips

    PierreLouisBeranek Community Member

      When hovering over a selection of clips, it would be nice if the tooltip that appears reported the  in the Timeline would report the Start, End and Duration of the SELECTION and not just the single clip under the cursor.  In other words, it would be nice if Tooltips were intelligent.

       

      Agree, disagree?

       

      I know the Info window can do the same thing, but people working on a laptop don't exactly have screen real estate to spare for another window that tooltips could replace.

        • 1. Re: Intelligent tooltips
          petergaraway Employee Hosts

          If you haven't done so already please file a feature request here:

           

          https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

           

          Peter Garaway

          Adobe

          Premiere Pro

          • 2. Re: Intelligent tooltips
            Steven L. Gotz Community Member

            I agree. It makes perfect sense.

             

            Go ahead and paste in your Feature Request here after submitting it.

            • 3. Re: Intelligent tooltips
              PierreLouisBeranek Community Member

              Thanks guys.  I'll post as soon as I get a chance.

              • 4. Re: Intelligent tooltips
                PierreLouisBeranek Community Member

                Here's my official FR.

                Please feel free to copy/paste and send it as your own at www.adobe.com/go/wish

                 

                *******Enhancement / FMR*********

                Brief title for your desired feature: Context Relevant Tooltips in the Timeline

                 

                How would you like the feature to work?

                When the cursor hovers over a selection of clips in the Timeline, the tooltip should report the Start, End, and Duration of the Selection, and not just the clip under the cursor.

                 

                Why is this feature important to you?  Timeline tooltips that are Context relevant would be far more useful that the current non-context relevant ones.  If a user wants to know the duration of a group of clips, simply hovering over the selection to get a relevant tooltip would be very useful.  The Info window can also do this, but having to rely on an extra window for this information unnecessarily clutters the workspace and robs the user of all too precious screen real-estate when editing on a laptop (an ever more common way of editing with the powerful laptops available nowadays).

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                • 5. Re: Intelligent tooltips
                  Ann Bens CommunityMVP

                  Select clips, hit forward slash and info is in the Program monitor. No extra window.

                  I would go for the FR providing I can switch it on or off in the Pref.

                  • 6. Re: Intelligent tooltips
                    PierreLouisBeranek Community Member

                    Hi Ann,

                     

                    Thanks for the tip, but it doesn't work for me.  Is this a keyboard shortcut you assigned?  For me, the forward slash isn't assigned to anything.

                     

                    BTW, why would you want to be able to turn the tooltips context relevance off?  When you rest your cursor over a selected clip within a selection, you sometimes want the tooltip to report info on just the clip under the cursor instead of on the selection?   Or do you mean you want to be able to turn tooltips off altogether (if this is what you meant, you can already do that in the Preferences).

                    • 7. Re: Intelligent tooltips
                      Ann Bens CommunityMVP

                      Forward slash (/) is an already exciting shortcut (mark selection)

                      Even in selections I most of the time use the info for one clip.

                      • 8. Re: Intelligent tooltips
                        JSS1138 CommunityMVP

                        / is the Mark Selection shortcut in CS6.  x is the new Mark Selection shortcut in CC.

                        • 9. Re: Intelligent tooltips
                          shooternz Community Member

                          Mark Selection is "/" in CC as Ann says.

                           

                          You must have changed yours.

                          • 10. Re: Intelligent tooltips
                            JSS1138 CommunityMVP

                            My apologies.  x is now Mark Clip.  It used to be the Rate Stretch tool.

                            • 11. Re: Intelligent tooltips
                              PierreLouisBeranek Community Member

                              Ann Bens wrote:

                              Even in selections I most of the time use the info for one clip.

                              If that's true for one user here, it surely is true for other users out there, so okay, it seems where would have to be a way to accomodate both, so how about this:  A larger tooltip that shows the info for both the individual clip the cursor is above AND the entire clip selection?

                               

                              If could look like this:

                               

                              CLIP NAME  [CLIP SELECTION]

                              Start: CLIP [SELECTION]

                              End: CLIP [SELECTION]

                              Duration: CLIP [SELECTION]

                               

                              Example

                               

                              MVI_3291.MOV  [CLIP SELECTION]

                              Start: 00;01;23;15 [00;01;23;15]

                              End: 00;01;27;00  [00;03;23;15]

                              Duration: 00;03;15 [00;03;00;00]

                               

                              Values would show up for the clip as they currently do, followed by values between brackets (or differentiated somehow) for the entire selection.

                               

                              Using Mark Selection is not an ideal workaround since it adds an extra step for users to remove the in/out points, or it can remove currently set in and/or out points that the user does not want changed just for the sake of verifying the duration of a clip selection.

                               

                              Thoughts?