Any way to override double click entering waveform editor?

[Trevor_Asq]

For the most part I want to use multitrack editor, so it would be great to disable the ‘double click clip to enter waveform editor’ function.

Reading around I believe this isn’t currently available as a preference?

Secondly, is there a way to ‘protect’ source files from being overwritten? (Ie if I do end up modifying them in waveform editor it forces a ‘save as’)

Thanks

[ryclark · Accepted solution]

No I'm afraid not.

For the second request again I'm afraid not. It is user beware. I always make sure that I am working on a copy of an original file when editing in Waveform view. Save As is the first action I take when opening a new file to work on in Waveform view. However you could make the original file 'Read Only' in your operating system. Then Audition will warn you when you try to save the file that it is protected and ask you to do a Save As instead.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Trevor_Asq  wrote

Secondly, is there a way to ‘protect’ source files from being overwritten? (Ie if I do end up modifying them in waveform editor it forces a ‘save as’)

If you've made changes to a file in Waveform view, and you just close it, it will give you an option to save it. Just say no...

I've never been forced to save changes if I didn't want to.

[tee332003]

Can we have this option added for a future releases? I am trying to mix a feature film and it is really slowing me down to have to jump out of waveform editor because of the silly double click on clip rule. Also the software is registering double clicks even when this is not the case. I think this compounds the reason audio editors and mixers choose other DAWs to work on professional/paid projects. This is just one of many corks with Audition. 

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Sorry, but I don't agree. You may need to regulate the double-slick speed on your mouse, I think, but I certainly don't want the double-click into Waveform to go away at all. Any other way of achieving that would make it more cumbersome. As for the rest of your statement, would you like to provide some evidence for that, please? As far as I know, Audition use statistics are never made public.

[HenryB833]

Trevor and Tee are correct. This constant switching is the most annoying thing I have encountered with Audition. It switches about 80% of the times that I do a single click or click and hold to move the clip. It seems to almost ALWAYS switch to the waveform editor. It takes me twice as long to do any kind of editing from the multitrack view when it keeps switching to the waveform.

[jameso33476564]

Agree, this drives me nuts, it's only started recently (last few weeks), no change in mouse so I don't know where it's come from

[phonehometoo]

I would love to see at least an option to turn it off. Sure have it on by default, but it's extremely annoying when you're trying to draw on the clip to be suddenly taken to the waveform editor. That and the lack of a keyboard shortcut for adding keyframes to a clip (or even automation) are my largest two pet peeves with this program right now. It just shouldn't be this way. I can't even find a global shortcut for adding keyframes in other programs (like Premiere and After Effects where keyframes are quite literally the way everything in thsos programs is done). I hope Adobe considers addressing this in future versions.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Of course if you'd checked out the latest release before commenting, you would have discovered that it's now possible to add keyframes to clips...

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

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[Christian_Filmmaker]

Please give us an option to disable the double click. It happens all the time that I jump in the waveform mode and I never want it.