"Toggle direct manipulation" icon goes missing if you have text selected in the Text panel

[BrianLevin]

If you open up the Text panel and highlight some text, which creates In-Out points on the timeline, then the Toggle Direct Manipulation button vanishes from the Program monitor if you then move around your timeline and directly select a clip. Clearing the In-Out selection fixes this.

I'm currently doing some soundbite pulls from the text panel so I've been able to recreate this issue several times this morning while working, eventually figured out what was causing it.

Not a huge issue, but it is a bigger problem since you cannot enable or disable Toggle Direct Manipulation with a global shortcut key, you must have the Program monitor in focus to enable to disable. There's another thread on Toggle Direct Manipulation and how it a) doesn't have a global shortcut key like we used to have before you put this icon in the program monitor and b) will pause playback if a clip is selected during playback and Toggle Direct Manipulation is meant to be in active mode.

Currently on 25.1

OSX 13.7.5

[Stan Jones]

@BrianLevin,

I'm looking at 25.2.3 on Win 10.

Here's what I think is happening. Caption and transcription text are not subject to direct manipulation, so when they are selected, the icon is not available. In my tests, this happened whether I selected them in the timeline, Properties panel, or Text panel.

The in/out occurs when the "automatically set in/out" toggle is set in the Transcript tab. Just selecting some text in the Text panel removes the direct manipulation icon, whether setting the in/out is on or off.

Stan

[BrianLevin]

Ah okay, that tracks. Well either way I very much can't stand the new Toggle Direct Manipulation implementation and I've got a few posts and replies to other posts about it. I'm hoping it can get a fresh set of eyes to look over it as it is disruptive to a lot of workflow at the moment.