Hi, not sure if there’s a bug here or I’m just doing something wrong. More likely the latter.
I’m running PT Studio (25.6) on an Intel mac (Monterey).
With “use PT scripting API” enabled, matchbox auto-creates it’s own dedicated shot/scene track within it’s own dedicated folder. Which is great but as part of that it creates new clipgroups to display each shot/scene. Now the issue here is that these are new clipgroups for each separate event, so they aren’t healable.
I will often have to go in to my scene cut track to heal certain areas where the EDL is being a bit silly and telling me a scene is changing when it’s just going from one angle to another. Obviously that’s not MB’s fault, the media was logged incorrectly at ingest I would assume as you can read the “scene” changes in the burn-in.
Anyway, I prefer to make a giant clipgroup and have matchbox slice it up. This is how I always worked in MB 1. But when I deselect “create scene track” or the “create cut markers” options in preferences, nothing seems to change. The scene track is created regardless along with markers for each cut.
Subsequently, I disabled the API option just to see how it would behave, and it did then stick with my selected track, moving down the timeline with the MB window indicating that it was making a “cut” as it flicks through the scene numbers. However it is then not actually performing a cut to my clipgroup. It is just hovering over each cut point, declaring a cut has been made and then moving on to the next position.
Something is weird here. Possibly my machine, or a pref I need to tick in MB…
Any thoughts much appreciated!