Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:14 am
If BMD decide to do the show/hide track thing in the Edit Page, there's really no need for them to reinvent the wheel. They already allow for effective showing and hiding of audio & video tracks, in Fairlight, using the Track Index panel... we have the same panel in the Edit Page now. For consistency alone, that would be the place to do it.
That said, purely as an editor, fully hiding tracks is not a feature I'd personally need or want in the Edit Page. For other tasks I can see why it might seem appealing... but the chaotic mess that unwary editors would get themselves into, moving things around in non-locked cuts (as you do), unaware of hidden tracks (intentional or otherwise) would be a sight to behold.
Moving forward though, given innovations in the Edit Page itself seem few and far between these days, it would be nice if the Edit Page could inherit a bit more hand-me-down functionality from other pages a bit more frequently... for example, the far greater flexibility with handling things like track height in the Fairlight Page would certainly be nice for Edit Page users.